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...which had previously been a full-term course, would now be offered as a "minicourse" in the Law School's three-week January session. And it announced that two visiting professors would share the teaching load: J. LeVonne Chambers, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), and Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the LDF. Chambers is Black, and Greenberg is white...
...group would urge a student boycott of the course. "The campaign for the course has been a stratagem, the broader goals of which include increasing the number of full-time, tenured Black and 'Third World' faculty members at the Law School," he added. Clearly neither Chambers nor Greenberg could help in this respect...
...students stopped here, the great legions of reporters and national pundits who love to draw "lessons," and prove trends by citing occurrences at Harvard, might have remained silent. But the angry law students went a step further--attacking Greenberg's ability, as a white person, to teach the course. Kenyatta wrote a letter to Chambers in mid-May, in which he outlined his group's perspective: "Shortly after learning of this proposed arrangement, the BLSA executive committee met and carefully considered the matter in light of several relevant factors. Paramount among these is BLSA's desire that Constitutional...
Dean James Vorenberg, an old friend of Greenberg's, argues that in the mini-term's ten-hours-a-week format, the course has the same class time and the same two credits as the original. As for the resistance to Greenberg, the dean says, "It works against, not for, shared goals of racial and social justice." Argues Roger Fisher, a faculty member normally sympathetic to minority activists: "It is a mistaken notion to think one must personally be the victim of a particular problem to be able to teach about that problem. One need not be charged...
...Greenberg's skin color is not overtly an issue in the other conflict. But it is a factor. In 1957 the N.A.A.C.P. and the L.D.F., after a long affiliation, parted amicably. But now the N.A.A.C.P. is suing to have its initials removed from the L.D.F.'s name. The main reasons: public confusion and competition for contributions. But some insiders concede that the disharmony, which has been building for several years, partly reflects the feelings of younger black lawyers, trained during the activist '60s and early '70s, who resent white leadership in the civil rights movement...