Word: butler
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Cowan, Archie G. Epps 3G, and John G. Butler '63 spoke at the last of three Cabot Hall living room discussions of race problems in America, entitled "Integration and Separatism." "Both are going on and should go on at the same time," Cowan claimed, "but the fact that students are making it impossible for Meredith to study at Mississippi has got to concern us more than our personal attitudes toward integration that have grown out of our own backgrounds...
...Butler said that separatism should be an "increase of race identification" rather than racial isolation; the Negro should transfer his primary allegiance to hierarchies which can improve his status. He supported this brand of separatism because of what he called "failures" of current integration movements. These touch "only twenty per cent" of the Negro community, and the apparent progress represented by, for example, desegregation in public buildings does nothing to change the American's basic attitude toward integration. "Individual inertia remains," Butler said, "in spite of acceptance of the hypothesis and legality of integration...
...legal problems are still with us, according to Butler, and likewise the Negro inferiority complex, a legacy of the American society's repression of Negroes. He suggested that Negroes at all levels should have "automatic" membership" in one mass group with the hierarchical leadership needed to assert stronger racial identity...
Royboy refused to admit defeat. "I will go on fighting to alter a decision I consider wrong in every way," he thundered before an emergency session of his Federal Parliament in Salisbury. In London, beleaguered R. A. Butler, Deputy Prime Minister who is in charge of Central African affairs, wearily insisted that it was "our duty" to okay Nyasaland's secession. To soothe a strong bloc of pro-Welensky Tories, he said that he would visit Central Africa early next year to look into the chances of preserving a union between the two Rhodesias...
Woodword A. Wickham '64, of Quincy House and Jackson, Mich., was elected president of the Harvard Lampoon for next year. Other officers are Lawrence M. Butler '64, of Quincy House and Chelsea; Jeffrey L. Steingarten '64, of Adams House and Hewlett Neck, N.Y., Narthex; Stevenson Mclivaine '63-3, of Eliot House and Middleburg, Va., treasurer; and Robert D. Swezey '62-3, of Lowell House and Washington, D.C., secretary...