Word: jeffrieses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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At Harlem's City College, day one of Professor Leonard Jeffries' spring semester class, African Heritage 101, begins meekly -- no sign of the brouhaha that surrounded Jeffries' dismissal in 1992 from his post as chairman of the college's Black Studies department for having allegedly made anti-Semitic statements; no...
When Jeffries finally does arrive, fully an hour late, he is apologetic and cheerful, with a grin on his angular face. After greeting the class enthusiastically in ancient Egyptian -- "Hautep!" -- and receiving a decidedly lukewarm "Hautep" back, he explains that he has been trying to retrieve his clothes from the...
According to Jeffries, the class will focus on African contributions to world civilization that have been ignored by Eurocentric scholars. He begins by scribbling a chalkboard chart featuring "the sun people" (i.e., people of color) at one corner of a triangle and "the ice people" (i.e., not people of color...
The Black Students Association invited notorious bigot and anti-Semite Leonard Jeffries to speak on campus; the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations sponsored a campus speech by Conrad Muhammad, another notorious anti-Semite.
Student editors may be misled by the approach of Smith and other Holocaust ! revisionists, says Lawrence Jeffries of Atlanta's Center for Democratic Renewal (CDR) which monitors extremist groups. "They don't present themselves in a Heil Hitler sort of way," he explains. "They seek to be very intellectual in...