Word: larkin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Graduate Secretary stressed that Phillips Brooks House has been working on the problem of the Housing Registry for some time. "I'm unwilling to admit that the Larkin letter precipitated action that otherwise wouldn't have been taken,... but it did focus publicity on it," he said...
Three Cambridge landlords who are listed on the University Housing Registry yesterday admitted that they do not rent rooms or apartments to non-white students. Their names were among nine sent to the CRIMSON last week by Mrs. Linda N. Larkin, who stated that these people had refused to rent to a Negro couple...
Another three homeowners named by Mrs. Larkin denied the accusation of discrimination and insisted a mistake had been made. Three more could not be reached for comment...
...John R. Myer of 146 Upland Road not only denied the charge of discrimination, but said, "We went to the International Student Center and specifically requested minority students, but none came." Mrs. Myer felt that Mrs. Larkin had misunderstood her reason for not renting to a Negro couple--"I'm not willing to rent to any couple," she said. "Our rooms are simply too small...
...Larkin, who sent a copy of her letter to President Pusey, said she received a reply from Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President on civic affairs, saying that the University was interested in the problems of minority students and would take her information under consideration...