Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approximately 3:25 p.m., thick black smoke began billowing from the windows at 20 John F. Kennedy Street, above Pizzeria Uno. Six trucks from the Cambridge Fire Department arrived several minutes later, and fire fighters doused the blaze within a few minutes...
House resident Lamonte Lucas '91, a former member of the College's race relations advisory committee and former committee chair for the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association, reported that on November 29 he discovered a lost computer disk on his doorstep with a note reading, "NIGGER". The disk's contents were damaged or erased, he said...
...then there was Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom ("friendly attitude"--the CUE Guide). At the same forum, he placed a five dollar bill on the table, betting Assistant Professor of Sociology and of Afro-American Studies Roderick J. Harrison that Black professors at other Ivy League universities are "unqualified" as academics...
Wattleton wears the burden, though she would call it the honor, of being a role model. As a black woman, divorced mother and crusader for family planning, she feels the pressure of being held up as a symbol, and she is determined neither to let up nor to let anyone down...
Politics is not an intellectual pursuit for her; her political education was her own experience as a black woman. She never marched in the civil rights movement; her parents were her political models. "I can't separate myself from the fact that I grew up as a black child. My parents were quietly defiant of racism. I was born and raised in the North, but my roots are solidly in the South. In the summers we drove south to Canton, Miss., where my mother was from. My father would always ask, whenever we stopped for gas, if they had toilets...