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...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...
...That...Jack Greenberg is white is simply not the animus behind our actions. Rather, we are protesting the 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 that administration, whose dean expressed a preference for hiring 'an excellent white teacher' over a 'mediocre black one.'" --Donald Christopher Tyler and Cynthia Muldrow (executive committee members of the BLSA) The New York Times, August...
...students' protest did involve an ill-considered attack on Greenberg. But the object of the protest was the stifling homogeneity of a law school faculty of more than seventy professors, of whom only two are black. That protest was marked by a self-defeating and narrow-minded urge to cuss out whites. But any response to the students' demands that does not consider the larger context in which they arose is similarly narrow-minded." --Randall Kennedy The Nation, September...
...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 who 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 professor, Harvard asked prominent Black attorney Julius L. Chambers to lead a special three-week course during the January winter term. Chambers invited Greenberg to assist...