Word: greened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Green said that Harvard is not to blame for the problem. "To scream about why there aren't professors is foolish," she said...
...Both Green and Jackson rejected that logic. "You don't accept that one group of people can never be your friends," Green said. "You have to make the effort and it has to be sincere...
Furthermore, lower-income students who did come to Harvard faced additional pressures. Green said she came from a background that made coming through Harvard difficult. Her father attended school through eighth grade, and her mother dropped out to marry him. Her sister went to Kentucky State and earned a Masters degree, but Green was the first in her family to go to a prestigious Ivy League school and to attend law school...
Since there are few faculty role models, Black alumni have a responsibility to reach out to undergraduates, Green said. "By the time you are in a position to offer advice, "you're sufficiently old that you've forgotten what it's like to be an undergraduate," said Green. Undergraduates "don't have the courage or initiative to up and call," she said...
Black college graduates also have a responsibility to go out and actively encourage children, Green said, especially inner-city minority children...