Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realization that racism is alive and seething in the hearts and minds of the American populace. This awakening comes from the stark realities of being Black in America. It comes from being called nigger in the classroom and the boardroom rather than just in railroad stations and at bus stops. It is the realization that a middle-class or upper-class or educated Black is still, in the eyes of white America, just Black. A Harvard degree does not take away your color...
...still not sure what to think of the encounter. When I think of the much worse incident in which two Harvard students were ordered off a shuttle bus and searched by Cambridge police last March, I wonder if I'm just being paranoid...
Traveling was always fun with any team. You hear a lot of good and bad jokes, a lot of good and bad singing. It's always more comfortable going to the match with a team than coming home on the bus after a loss...
...March, Andre L. Williams '89 and Craig A. Cochrane '91 were ordered off a University Shuttle bus and searched by police officers seeking a suspect in a nearby shoplifting. The students filed a complaint over their treatment after they learned that the police were looking for a tall white male and were twice given a description that does not match either student before removing the two from the vehicle...
Williams said yesterday that he would prefer to hold a hearing at the end of June, rather than during the fall. Because the bus driver, Geoffrey J. McQuilken '91, will be in Cambridge over the summer, Williams said he believed there would be enough evidence to prove his side of the case...