Word: mccree
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...exists merely as a concession to the militancy of Black students in the late 1960s, and that it operates without the support of a large portion of the University's faculty and administration, may contribute to the reluctance of scholars to join its staff. A statement in the 1971 McCree report on Afro-American Studies at Harvard notes. "One of the problems of attracting eminent black and white scholars to the department is the fact that they have earned acceptance in 'conventional' disciplines at other institutions which they would not want to forsake by going to a department which appears...
...government, represented by Solicitor General Wade H. McCree, has argued that the Selective Service should not register women for the draft since they are ineligible for combat roles. McCree has also contended that sex-discrimination within the military can be constitutional, and that Congress has the sole right to raise an army without interference from other branches of government...
...precisely this caliber of American scholars, Black and white, that Dean Henry Rosovsky and other members (including me) of the founding Committee on Afro-American Studies in 1969 and the subsequent McCree Review Committee in 1972 have endeavored to bring to Harvard's Department of Afro-American Studies. Professor Genovese is simply one of the several most innovative and profound scholars in the field of Afro-American Studies, having captured the most coveted prize in American history--the Bancroft Prize (1975) of the American Historical Association--for his monumental work, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made...