Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard to further their personal interests and those of their class. They use ROTC to train students to put down popular rebellions from Detroit to Vietanam--rebellions against the daily oppression millions of people face at the hands of these men and their class. They evict black and white working people from their homes in Cambridge and Roxbury to make way for expansion which can only serve the ruling class--for political science institutes and research hospitals catering to the rich. Harvard's expansion is only part of a general plan to convert Cambridge into a center for imperialist research...
Davis read selections of poetry from Black Fire, an anthology of black literature published in 1968. Jones' "We are unfair" illustrates the anthology's anti-white establishment theme...
...Although black artists disdain any ties to previous American literature "the black arts are a thoroughly American phenomenon," Davis said. "The belief that art can remake America is part of the Romantic disposition which characterizes this country," he added...
...achievement of the black arts movement is in its emotional power and the genuine response it elicits from young blacks," Davis said. "Its strength comes from the desperate need [of young people] to find mottoes with which to identify," he added...
Davis' field is 19th and early 20th Century American literature, but he has devoted much of his time recently to black literature. He graduated from Dartmouth and has taught American literature at NYU and Princeton...