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...course--being taught by Civil rights lawyers Julius Levonne Chambers and Jack Greenberg--has been the subject of an active boycott by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA), which had called on the Law School to bring in a tenure track minority professor to teach the course...
...extent, this seems to be the logic behind the Black Law Students Association's (BLSA) reluctance to discuss the fact that 59 law students have already registered for a civil rights course the BLSA had worked energetically to urge students to boycott...
...issues of civil rights. It would be one thing if a minority-led boycott of a stuffy course on corporate law was widely disregarded. But this is a group of students who, in professing to want to study the civil rights battles of yesteryear, are explicitly rejecting what BLSA says is the civil rights battle of today...
From a tactical point of view, had the minority law students succeeded in keeping enrollment in the course to zero, you can bet they would be talking quite loudly about their achievement. And if 59 students seems rather high, it is hardly in the BLSA's interest to argue the numbers. But it is nevertheless crucial that they take a close look at the 59 students who disregarded a civil rights boycott to take a civil rights course. For better or worse, these men and women may be typical of the civil rights movement's national audience in the years...
...recruiting and retaining minority tenured professors. If there is any racism at Harvard, it is on the part of that administration, whose dean expressed a preference for hiring 'an excellent white teacher' over a 'mediocre black one.'" --Donald Christopher Tyler and Cynthia Muldrow (executive committee members of the BLSA) The New York Times, August...