Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Representatives of the Organization for Black Unity (OBU) yesterday termed an Administration list of responses to black students' demands of last month "merely a flowery restatement of the status quo vis a vis black employment on Harvard's campus and black participation on Harvard's construction program...
Archibald Cox, Samuel Williston Professor of Law, and L Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University, met with black students at noon yesterday and gave them a position paper and point-by-point list explaining what Harvard has done in response to their demands. The students said the reply was unsatisfactory and asked for a further response, which Wiggins said last night would probably be ready by today...
...planning a rally in the Yard at noon today, and has asked in a statement released yesterday afternoon, "that all black students in the area and all interested black community residents attend...
Harvard agrees with the black students that the category of painter's helper should be abolished. "The students had asked that all helpers be reclassified as painters, but the Administration said that not all would be automatically promoted. A new apprenticeship program will be open to those former helpers who wish to join. The Administration will ask the Contractors Association of Boston (3 representative for black contractors) to appoint a three-man committee to review the qualifications of present painter's helpers and recommend changes in their status...
...plea for integration sounds quaint at a moment when ethnic power and "positive polarization" are carrying the day. It sounds curiously quaint from the man often credited with the rediscovery of the ethnic community ( Beyond the Melting Pot ). Perhaps Moynihan could soft-pedal his policy as "the creation of black suburbs." The creation of black suburbs, though, has been going on for many years; to some extent, it has aggravated the social disorientation of the blacks left behind. Moynihan actually has in mind a federally financed migration out of the ghetto. But to where- the white suburbs, the rural hinterlands...