Word: harper
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Firstly, Mr. Horsey states: "Robert Harper '78 is said to be under great pressure from the YSA-SWP (Young Socialists Alliance-Socialists Workers Party) although he is not a member of either group." This statement, accompanied by previous ones implies that Mr. Harper is "under pressure" which leads him to conform to, accept and support the practices of the YSA-SWP. Who has "said" this? What group or individual, halfway knowledgeable of NSCAR's organizing efforts and activities would make this statement...
...fact of the matter a that Mr. Harper and the YSA-SWP have met head-to-head on a number of issues Mr. Harper pressed for speakers from the "Boston school parent community" at the February 14th rally: YSA-SWP representatives, claiming that Thomas Atkins, President of the Boston NAACP, was a representative from that community, said that "one parent is enough." Mr. Harper refused an offer from a Boston SWP former candidate for statewide office to "work out a compromise proposal" with the proposal for "just three slogans and a march" submitted by YSA members and NSCAR coordinators Maceo...
...NSCAR being "estranged from the Black community as a whole" in its direction, which Mr. Horsey sees as a "rejection of the Black past," this is only half-false. NSCAR certainly could stand more contact with the Black community, particularly school parents, but Mr. Harper's proposal, if initiated, would fill this said. Also, there are presently efforts to move the NSCAR office into or around the Black community in Boston. As many NSCAR people speak of modeling the desegregation movement after the "success of the civil rights movement of the '60s," there is little if any "rejection...
Just how open Ford was with Ward is shown in the remarkable photographs on this and the following two pages. They are part of a portfolio of Ward's pictures to be published in May by Harper & Row in a book entitled Portrait of a President. The volume also includes a portrait biography of the President written by Hugh Sidey, TIME'S Washington bureau chief...
...Harper's organization there are members of NAM, the Organization For the Solidarity of Third World Students and Afro. Harper said the group's diversity is "one of the most critical things about...