Word: kilson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should like to make two points concerning the ongoing controversy between certain African-American faculty members and administrators. First, if the level of debate between Professors Kilson and Guinier is a reflection of the African-American intelligentsia's grasp and articulation of the African-American situation, it is little wonder that street-and-prison-educated people have consistently filled the ranks of the African-American leadership since the death of W.E.B. DuBois...
...appointment of Professors Kilson and Patterson to the board of the institute is an entirely separate matter that should wake even the dead to speak. In the early stages of the department's existence, Professor Kilson gained national notoriety as an aggressive critic of Afro-American studies, Black students and so-called lower-class Blacks. He has remarked that the courses in the department were so many examples of "basketweaving." For this slander and others too numerous to mention, his appointment to the board of the DuBois Institute would be objectionable even if he refrained from contributing. His appointment...
There is some middle-class resentment of the recruiting programs by Government, corporations and colleges that seem to favor the underclass over the upwardly mobile. No one has given more trenchant voice to this point of view than Martin Kilson, professor of government at Harvard. He has charged that college-admissions officials have been discriminating against middle-class black youths in the interest of recruiting poor blacks-an attitude that he says is based on the quixotic notion that the genuine black experience is only to be found in the ghetto. As a result, said Kilson, some of the most...
...participants will include psychologist Kenneth B. Clark; Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government; Derrick A. Bell Jr., professor of Law; and Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to the President...
...around the Worker-Student Alliance Caucus (WSA) helped build and lead SDS from '67 to '72. And he made it perfectly clear he opposed Workers Power members (many of whom were deeply involved in this earlier organizing) building this same type of movement against racists like Jencks, Kilson and Herrnstein at Harvard today...