Word: kilson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article it is clear that he himself is in no position whatever to answer this view-point one way or the other. Despite the fact that he is himself a Negro, Herbert Denton possesses a pitifully superficial understanding of the Negro's experience, both past and present. Martin Kilson Lecturer on Government...
...Kilson attempts to establish the idea that there is an overriding international community of Negro Interest and experience by reciting a long list of Negro poets and authors who have expressed this feeling. I could give a longer list of white poets and authors who have expressed a common feeling of "white supremacy." I don't think that an idea is good or true simply because it has been stated before. My main argument against the Association, however, was not whether or not there did in fact exist some possible particular community of Interest between African and American Negroes...
...point two of his arguments, Mr. Kilson attempts to give substance to the argument of "unity of oppression" by saying, in effect, that African and American Negroes are united by the similar myths that whites have formed against them. I did not argue that the myths were not similar but rather that the styles of oppression have been different. The difference in the styles of oppression and In the social, economic, and political surroundings has resulted, I feel, in a difference in the present circumstances, attitudes, etc., of American and African Negroes. I still fail to see how their widely...
...think that point three of Mr. Kilson's argument (which seemingly implies that I am less of a Negro than he is because I don't particularly agree with him) clearly confirms my chief reservation about the forming of an African and Afro-American Association at Harvard--that Harvard Negro undergraduates who don't join would be accused of "selling out," being "Uncle Toms" or, as Mr. Kilson so eruditely puts it, "possessing a pitifully superficial understanding...
Martin L. Kilson, Jr. and Charles J. Beard, Jr. '66 will deliver lectures on the relation between Negro history and American history in general at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Strauss Hall Common Room...