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...Dearborn's 90,660 residents. The city's lily-white makeup was maintained by Mayor Orville Hubbard, a chest-thumping racist who ruled Dearborn's city hall from 1942 to 1978. Although Hubbard died in 1982, his legacy was hauntingly present last week as civil rights activists expanded a boycott of local stores to protest efforts to bar nonresidents from most of Dearborn's 39 parks...
Quickly, though, the ordinance served to spotlight the area's long-standing racial divide. Civil rights leaders saw it as a clumsy move to keep out blacks from Detroit. In retaliation, the N.A.A.C.P. organized a boycott of Dearborn's stores, including those at Fairlane Town Center, a 2,360-acre complex that includes the state's largest shopping mall. Before the boycott, an estimated 28% of Fairlane's shoppers were black. Says the Rev. Charles Adams, minister of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church and head of the Detroit N.A.A.C.P.: "They welcome us to shop in their stores, but don't allow...
...boycotts mark the first time in recent memory that students have chosen to boycott the committee on a large scale. Last year, Dunster and Mather decided to boycott the CRR, and the other houses voted to postpone a decision because they said they were not given enough time to gauge student opinion of the Vietnam War-era disciplinary body...
...Currier House Committee, the decision was not whether to boycott, but whether to send a student representative before the FacultyCouncil has completed its review, said housecommittee Chairman Karen Bergreen '87. Thecommittee voted 22-18 against sending a delegate,she said...
North House's decision to boycott "was morethan just a case of increased awareness," saidHouse Committee Chairman Steven Gleason '87. "Inpast years people weren't as informed and asconcerned about...