Word: freidel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instructorial staff headed by Frank Freidel, professor of History, brings a white complexion to black subjects. Says Wanda Williams, '72: "As the course now stands it is hardly relevant to black students because we're still seeing history through the white man's eyes." Adds one junior: "The real problem is that Freidel devotes all his time to refuting prejudices his audience does not hold. The lecture series might better be called, 'Negro Heroes I Have Known'--it consists of black equivalents of the George Washington cherry tree tale...
...selected to launch Soc Sci 5 at Harvard--and the man bearing the brunt of the criticism--is Professor Frank Freidel, 52, senior member of the History Department and noted Franklin D. Roosevelt biographer. Freidel, approached both by members of Afro and by the faculty committee last spring, abandoned his plans to teach a course this year on the New Deal and accepted the draft. After soliciting recommendations from black students and other faculty members, Freidel spent a summer on Cape Cod gathering together his lecture material and drawing up a reading list...
During the course of a recent two-hour interview, Freidel seemed relaxed--but not at all unaware of the criticism. He admitted at the outset that time had been limited...
Student criticism remains centered on the content of the lectures. "The real problem," said one junior, "is that Freidel [Frank Freidel, professor of History] devotes all his time to refuting prejudices his audience does not hold. The lecture series might better be called 'Negro Heroes I Have Known'--it consists of black equivalents of the George Washington cherry tree tale...
...Freidel, however, when asked about guest lecturers, said that there had never been any plans to have outsiders as substitute lecturers. Several black lecturers have been brought in to speak at afternoon sessions...