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The Harvard intellectual community has yet to acknowledge Dr. W.E.B. DuBois as a brilliant black scholar. Harvard ignored him during his attendance, during his life-time as a crusader against racial injustice, and has yet to fully recognize his achievements.
We must agree with Professors Kilson, Nwafor, Patterson, and others that all publicly announced meetings or lectures sponsored by any department in the University should not exclude any portion of the University community. The incident concerning the lecture given by Mrs. DuBois sponsored by the Afro-American Studies Department which...
Furthermore, DuBois was an eminent twentieth-century scholar and political revolutionary. He was not a "black scholar" and to think otherwise is to emasculate the great man's achievements. There is no other African of comparable or equal stature in this century. The ideological and racial blunders of the United...
But this necessary "anti-racist racism" does not become an end in itself, justifying a conservative totality. Rather, it opens up revolutionary perspectives. Because he is the most oppressed, he necessarily pursues-not only by a Hegelian ruse of reason-the liberation of all when he rises to enact his...
Finally, it would be a pity if this incident would provide an occasion for self-righteousness on either side. It is not insignificant to recall that Harvard refused to offer an academic appointment to DuBois. not because of his intellectual distinction-which to the credit of the University, was recognized...