Word: greenbergs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highly publicized boycott of a Law School civil rights course organized by Black students. The action, revealed in July and scheduled for this winter, provoked outrage because it seemed that the students had unleashed their frustration over a lack of minority faculty members on an undeserving victim: Jack Greenberg, an eminent civil rights lawyer where is also white...
...replacement for a previous civil rights course taught by a Black professor, who left Harvard two years ago. Rather than immediately hiring another full-time Black professors. Harvard asked promiment Black attorney Julius L. Chambers to lead a special three-week course during the January winter term. Chambers invited Greenberg to assist...
...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...
...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 adamant 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 student's belated attempt to deemphasize their initial criticisms of Greenberg did little to repair the damage...