Word: greenberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fair, the notoriety gained by the course--which will be taught in the Law School's winter term by Jack Greenberg and Julius Levonne Chambers, both of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund--is bound to skew the enrollment figures somewhat. A good number of students who probably knew little about either of the two visiting professors have been treated to a barrage of press accounts lauding the men's special qualifications for teaching the course...
...School responded to our demands by inviting Julius LeVonne Chambers and Jack Greenberg, two visiting attorneys, who together could only spare a total of three weeks from their busy schedules, to teach a course. "Racial Discrimination and Civil Rights," during the irregular Winter Term. Moreover, the course was announced after all students had already registered for the entire 1982-83 academic year...
...therefore, boycotting this belated and inadequate addition to the 1982-83 curriculum, taught by non-tenure track visiting professors. The fact that one of these visitors, Jack Greenberg, is white is simply not the animus behind our actions. Rather, we are protesting the complete lack of good faith by the Law School administration in recruiting and retaining minority tenured professors. If there is any racism at Harvard, it is on the part of the Law School administration whose dean expressed a preference for hiring "an excellent white teacher" over a "mediocre Black one." To imply that black legal professionals...
...fact that one of these visitors, Jack Greenberg, is white is simply not the animus behind our actions," the Black students said in a recent letter to the Crimson. The boycotters lashed out at those who they said had "erroneously characterized" the dispute. "We are protesting the complete lack of good faith by the Law School administration in recruiting and retaining minority tenured professors," they added...
...earlier letters in July, the students had specifically attacked the choice of a white instructor for the mini-course, and they objected to what they called Greenberg's "apparent hostility toward historically predominantly Black educational institutions, his adarment refusal to relinquish directorship of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to a Black attorney, and his opposition to Black student associations on predominantly white campuses." Colleagues and law professors jumped to Greenberg's defense, and he denied the charges levelled by the law students. The students' belated attempt to deemphasize their initial criticisms of Greenberg did little to repair the damage done...