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...disloyal." Black dissent over war has historically brought charges of disloyalty despite the eagerness among blacks to defend on foreign soil a democracy they couldn't enjoy back home. Since the time of slavery, blacks have actively defended the U.S. in every war it has waged, from the Civil War down to the war on terrorism, a loyalty to the Federal Government conceived by black leaders as a critical force in gaining freedom. W.E.B. DuBois argued in World War I that blacks should "forget our special grievances and close our ranks ... with our white fellow citizens." Some 380,000 soldiers...
...Kagan, who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, now holds the Charles Hamilton Houston professorship, named for the legendary civil rights attorney—and mentor to Marshall—who is known as “the man who killed Jim Crow,” according to Manegold...
...That’s what universities specialize in—the propagation of ideas,” said Alfred A. Brophy, a law professor at the University of Alabama who specializes in civil rights litigation and reparations. “As Emerson said, ‘The role of the scholar is to retest old assumptions.’ What Harvard was doing in the years leading into the Civil War was less retesting old assumptions and more telling people that the institution of slavery was right...
...University President Drew G. Faust, a Civil War historian, added that while recent research has revealed the extent to which northern institutions were complicit in slavery and there are many examples of Harvard ties to slavery, she was also struck by the number of students in Harvard’s history who were “advocates of abolition and emancipation...
...said that in researching her most recent book, “The Republic of Suffering,” she saw a lot of “soldiers from the Harvard student body who fought and died in the civil war often because of their deep abolitionist sentiments...