Word: civilizations
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This is the first in a series on Southern blacks. The author spent the summer as a reporter for the Southern Courier, a civil rights newspaper founded in 1965 by Harvard graduates...
...created equal, but you cannot hide from us the vast inequalities of our society. We have only to look around us to see that institutions like Harvard still exist mainly for the sons and daughters of the white upper middle classes. We have grown up with the civil rights struggle, and we know that our black brethren still face indifference, abuse, or even death when they stand up for what we once naively thought were God-given rights. Our teachers and our textbooks tell us that the gap between rich and poor in our society has scarcely narrowed in more...
...wise and sensitive than clear," Krister Stendahl, Dean of the Divinity School, said yesterday, explaining how his Faculty was dealing with the "serious questions and thorny questions" raised by an AWOL marine seeking sanctuary in the Andover chapel. Students have already pledged to support Paul Olimpieri with passive civil disobedience, should federal marshals come to remove him, and for a faculty that last fall supported divinity school students resisting the draft, it would tortuous to cast out a marine deserting in moral disgust at the Vietnam War or to condemn students trying to help...
Audrey Bruce Currier '56, who lived in Henry House while at Radcliffe, used her private fortune to set up the Taconic Foundation, which sponsored civil rights, educational advancement, and anti-poverty programs. Her father was David Bruce, U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. Mrs. Currier and her husband, Stephen Currier '49, were killed in an airplane crash in the Caribbean...
Dreadful Thing. The U.S. is thoroughly divided over the war, and there are demonstrations and civil disorders in the streets. The struggle is intensified when the President, recently nominated to run for another term, dies in the mysterious crash of Air Force...