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...story soon reached the national press, but attention was focused on the letter and not the lack of diversity on the law faculty. Editorial writers at The Washington Post and The New York Times condemned the BLSA’s letter as “banal ethnocentrism” and a “disservice” to the civil rights cause...
...returning to an uneasy campus in the fall as a second-year law student. He says that his white classmates were at first “hostile” towards their efforts, and other black students were taken aback by the firestorm sparked by Vorenberg’s summer letter and its coverage in the national media...
...group, with no real alternative, ratified the position that had been laid out in Kenyatta’s letter, and Tyler went to work writing editorials in defense of their position...
...fact that one of these visitors, Jack Greenberg, is white is simply not the animus behind our actions,” Tyler said in a letter to the editor. “If there is any racism at Harvard, it is on the part of the Law School administration whose dean expressed a preference for hiring ‘an excellent white teacher’ over a ‘mediocre Black...
...Vorenberg, who had worked for civil rights icons like Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy ’48, met with black student leaders numerous times to discuss how diversity could proceed in Bell’s absence. but in this letter, he asserted that while he shared the BLSA’s “goals of racial and social justice,” there were clear differences of opinion on how these goals were to be achieved...