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Josephine P. Wright, a former assistant professor of Afro-American Studies who filed a discrimination complaint against Harvard last spring, recently dropped the complaint after accepting a research appointment at the W.E.B. Dubois Institute for Afro-American Research.
Wright dropped her complaint last summer, after she was offered a one-year appointment to the W.E.B. Dubois Institute for Afro-American Research, a Harvard affiliate, Winston D. Kendall, her lawyer, said yesterday.
When Wright originally asked for an extension of her contract, Nathan I. Huggins, Dubois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies and chairman of the Afro-Am Department and the executive committee, denied the request on the grounds that there were not "sufficient and compelling reasons" to warrant the measure...
He could have returned to the relative comfort of Minnesota. Instead, in 1931 Wilkins joined the N.A.A.C.P. staff, at a time when lynching was still a threat in the U.S. "We had to provide physical security first," he said. At great risk, he investigated brutal conditions in Mississippi delta labor...
* "Establishment of a Postdoctoral Program for Minority Scholars. The difficulty of locating talented minority scholars has been evident throughout this investigation. One mechanism which might increase the number of candidates eligible for appointment at research universities would be to make available support for a year of study and research after...