Word: kilson
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...their own minds about a teacher on the basis of what he teaches." Black syndicated columnist Carl T. Rowan concluded of the episode. "Now we have black students in the exalted climes of Harvard declaring all whites guilty of something--because they are white." Harvard Government professor Martin Kilson, also Black, wrote a piece for the Washington Post in which he blasted the "Ethnic Arrogance" of the students and the "intellectual gibberish" they used in their own defense...
...searching debates over new directions but by personal feuds and internal politics. Beyond that, the association is engaged in a costly battle with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund over the fund's use of those initials. "The N.A.A.C.P. is in its twilight zone," says Martin Kilson of Harvard, one of the nation's ranking black political scientists. "The sun is setting on its head...
Government Professor Martin L. Kilson Jr. at0tended yesterday's meeting as an NAACP representative, but he declined to comment on the case other than to say that he would serve as a "friendly counsel" to Croxton...
...Kilson said White's speech emphasized an "aggregate picture" of progress rather than the experiences of individuals. "Black Boston is better than it has ever been," he said, citing the higher levels of Black participation in municipal employment, the school system, and the media...
Harvard participants also disagreed over the role of the academic community in the NAACP's plans. Academics "do not have much of a role," Kilson said. The NAACP "hasn't learned to use the potential friends it has in the academic establishment, he explained, adding that the group prefers an "ad-hoc" association...