Word: hiawatha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years in a row. More deeply, Negroes have discovered that they are the worst hurt victims of ghetto violence. Along with their desire for self-preservation goes a strong drive for self-determination. Instead of incinerating their neighborhoods, many have begun concentrating on building them up. Dr. Hiawatha Harris, head of a psychiatric clinic in Watts, echoes the common belief that "the rioting phase, where we burn down businesses in our own areas, is over now. The whole movement is in another direction-toward implementing black power and finding our dignity as a people...
...Falls might have added the cultural factor. He had the advantage of sound family background and a college-graduate mother. Admission tests are written with a white, middle-class bias, complains Dr. Hiawatha Harris, a black Los Angeles psychiatrist. He cites a young Negro candidate who went through two-thirds of the questions before he came to a subject that he knew anything about. That was science. The other questions were cultural, covering (among other things) yachting jargon and French expressionist painting. "Medical schools have been judging black applicants on an equal basis with whites in an effort...
Female Taboo. The choice of specialty is also limited. Los Angeles Psychiatrist Hiawatha Harris once dreamed of concentrating in obstetrics but soon found that this was the most tabooed field of all. In some medical schools, Negro students until recently were not allowed to go on obstetric rounds. Even city and county hospitals with mostly nonwhite patients, barred Negroes on the off-chance that they might have to examine a white woman...
...Shadow Ran Fast), a reformed California armed robber, whose Seven Step Foundation sends ex-convicts into prisons to counsel inmates and runs "freedom houses" to help re-leasees. Of 5,000 Seventh Step graduates so far, only 10% have returned to prison. An ex-New York prisoner named Hiawatha Burris has carved a new career persuading reluctant employers to hire ex-cons. With federal funds, Burris started Washington's Bonabond, a convict-run agency that has bonded and guided 441 men in new jobs. Bonabond has never had to pay off. Only 7% of its charges have been rearrested...
Currently, the director is Hiawatha Burris, 34, who served a six-month stretch for conspiracy to commit armed robbery; his assistants include alumni of such institutions as Sing Sing, Dannemora State Hospital...