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Green, who is white, claims he was not allowed to enter a lecture last Thursday in Sanders Theatre. The lecture was by Shirley Graham Dubois-widow of W.E.B. DuBois '88-who was invited by the Afro-American Studies Department to speak on the situation in Africa and the Mid-East...
Friday afternoon, Dubois issued a statement deploring the exclusion of persons from her lecture, saying she "was shocked" to learn anyone had been prevented from entering Sanders Theatre on the basis of race.
At 7:30, Green says, he attempted to enter Sanders Theatre to hear DuBois' speech, but was refused admittance because he was white.
The people were turned away from a lecture given by Shirley Graham DuBois, widow of W.E.B. DuBois '88, and sponsored by the Afro-American Studies Department. Some of those excluded were told that the meeting was open only to Afro-American Society members and their guests; others were told it...
Professor Ewart Guinier, chairman of the Afro Studies Department, circulated an Afro Department memorandum (dated January 8) inviting "the Harvard-Radcliffe community" to DuBois' speech. There were announcements of the lecture in both the CRIMSON and the Cambridge Chronicle, and Guinier personally invited members of the press to cover DuBois...