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Harvard professors slated to speak include Hilary W. Putnam, professor of Philosophy; Gar Alperovitz, of the Institute of Politics; Michael L. Walzer, associate professor of Government; and Christopher S. Jencks '58, lecturer on Education.
Riesman and Jencks contend that the Negro colleges never had a satisfactory rationale for their separatism, existing only because white colleges would not admit black students. Dependent largely upon whites for financial survival, the schools have never been aggressive in attacking segregation. For officials of these colleges, "the result was...
The researchers consider it "unlikely that any all-Negro school will ever have a first-rate graduate professional program." The only Negro medical schools-those at Howard University in Washington and Meharry in Nashville-"rank among the worst in the nation, and would probably have been closed long ago had...
Neurotic Reasons. Riesman and Jencks doubt that the majority of Negro colleges will ever achieve significant student integration. The only whites many can attract are those who attend them "for a mixture of idealistic, exploratory and neurotic reasons." At the same time, white colleges increasingly seek out the best Negro...
Separate Negro colleges could justify their continuing existence by "channeling outside money and ideas into the local Negro community," by concentrating on Negro culture, or merely by serving as "residential secondary schools" to offset poor instruction in lower grades. But all these alternatives, the authors admit, would "entail an intolerable...