Word: honored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make the carnage bearable, we tell each other that the North was fighting for God and goodness--"Glory, Glory, Hallelujah." We insist that for one brief moment, right and might were allied to crush the evil South. And so we honor the memory of the victors in America's great crusade; Memorial Hall was built for the explicit purpose of honoring the Northerners...
...honor the memory of rich white Harvard boys whose slaves were poor white immigrants from Ireland, Italy, and Eastern Europe. We bestow greatness upon a region that also slaughtered Indians, abused ethnic minorities--white and black--and persecuted non-Protestants...
There is, therefore, no need to honor the Confederate dead. They've been honored already by their neighbors and friends. It would be a waste of marble to add their names in Memorial Hall...
...flag of the confederacy--once a badge of honor--has become a badge of hate. In North Carolina, school officials are facing a new form of civil disobedience. Junior high and high school students are pinning the flag to their apparel, much to the alarm of school administrators who fear the flag will increase racial tensions. Students who refuse to remove the flag are being kicked out of Carolina classrooms...
Because the South supported slavery and because the Confederacy has become a rallying symbol for American racists, the College must never honor the Confederacy. But Harvard can honor its dead, without honoring the South...