Word: kilson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, sharply criticized Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, in a letter printed yesterday in the New York Times Magazine. Guiner joined several other critics at Harvard--who have already written to the Times--in disputing the accuracy of Kilson's article in the Times Magazine on blacks at Harvard...
Guinier specifically attacked Kilson's description of the Faculty's revision of the Afro Department in January, charging that "every statement made by Professor Kilson about the Faculty's actions is false...
...Kilson wrote in the Times Magazine article--which appeared September 2--that the Faculty decided in January "to remove students from participation in the department's academic affairs" and to establish a Faculty committee with no Afro Department representation to select new Afro Faculty...
Guinier also wrote that Kilson was "on his way out at Harvard when he was rescued by the civil rights movement." The Government Department had notified Kilson that he would not receive tenure, Guinier said yesterday, but he was reinstated because of the activities of black students in the wake of the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King...
...Kilson said last night that he knew he would get tenure three years before his official notification, and that Guinier's charge is "a total...