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...artistic boycott illustrates the bottom line of common interests that still unite the diverse Black groups. This bottom line can only be, as Jackson states it, "that there will always be particular needs and interests that will have a different effect on Black students than on whites." Black student leaders agree that changes in the incoming Black students have only mandated new priorities for Black groups, the underlying need for the organizations remain unchanged. So while, it is unlikely that these groups will regain the united, close-knit structure of the early 1970s, the evolution of the Black organizations speaks...
January 1983--Support for the boycott increases. The coalition gains endorsement from the Committee on Gay and Lesbian Legal Issues, the Women's Law Association, and the Law School Council for the boycott. Approximately 60 students, almost half of them whites, picket the first class of the Chambers-Greenberg class...
October 1982--A poll by the Harvard Law Record reveals that 71 percent of the student body is opposed to the boycott Ninety percent, however, say they favor "a special effort" on the part of the faculty to hire more minority and female professors, raising the number above...
Summer 1982--Minority law students announce plans to boycott a civil rights class to be taught in January 1983 by two prominent civil rights attorneys...
September 1982--The six member organizations of the Third World Coalition vote to boycott the Chambers Greenberg class Support in the Coalition, however, is not unanimous. The boycott tactic, says Joseph A Garcia, president of La Alianza the Chicano students organization, "will hurt minority students. It's like cutting off our nose to spite our face...