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...were transplanted here at Harvard, if black students here felt the physical and psychic wrath of the white folks for a while. As it was, there was hardly a stir here. One would think that Boston was an isolated instance, that that stuff only happens in South Boston and Charlestown. Not so, black people, not so. Think back to the Price family (if you remember, if you heard), who lived just blocks from Harvard Square. If you look around, you will find that you don't even have to leave Harvard to find racial violence. People should realize that Malcolm...
...things have changed. The administration has worked far more closely than in the past with community groups and both Cambridge and Boston city agencies to develop a workable proposal to place the archives in Harvard Square and the museum in the Charlestown Navy Yard...
...apparent that if the Columbia Point site is chosen on Monday, construction could begin immediately. There is a chance that construction could be stalled at Charlestown with its reams of red tape and complicated federal funding proposals. And if the split-site proposal is not chosen, there seems to be a greater likelihood that plans for Charlestown and Cambridge would eventually gain their funds, even without the library, while the Columbia Point area might have less of a chance for development...
...museum, if constructed in Charlestown, would help develop a major historical park in an area sorely in need of redevelopment. Placing the museum in Charlestown would insure speedy Federal assistance for the whole navy yard development plan...
...more overriding long-term benefits of the split-site. If the corporation seriously meant that it would accept a suitable slip-site proposal as it said last May--then it should choose the Harvard-backed plan and build the archives in Harvard Square and the museum in Charlestown...