Word: greenbergs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appointments--including three new assistant professors and several visiting and adjunct positions. All of the new appointments were white males, perfectly mirroring the all-white and all-male Appointments Committee the Law School had established to do the choosing. Vorenberg, in a summer mailing about the Chambers-Greenberg course, weakened the students' case by using that unusual forum to announce that one Black lawyer had just accepted a tenure track position, and another was considering a similar offer. But the Law School today refuses to divulge the name of either alleged individual, and Assistant Dean for Academic Administration Stephen...
...what becomes of their ivy may at any minute become national headlines. And the fact that they continue to be taught by white males just might not. This fall, you can bet that minority groups at the Law School won't say a whole lot about Jack Greenberg being white. But you can also bet they won't stop talking about how white the rest of the Law School faculty continues...
...Aspiring lawyers who would deny themselves, and others, the chance to hear Mr. Greenberg do him and the civil rights cause a disservice. There is little point to pride if its price is ignorance." --New York Times editorial, August...
...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...