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...Otis McRae, former non-resident trimester coordinator for Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt., spoke on the steps of Memorial Church at the rally, which marked the end to an 11-day journey McRae and three companions made to Harvard to dramatize charges of racism at Goddard...
Although leaflets advertising the rally said McRae, Charles Johnson, Mary Kacen and Steve Guerra had walked 200 miles "for racial justice", Kacen told The Boston Globe that the walk was discontinued in southern New Hampshire, near Concord. From there the group visited college campuses throughout New England by car before coming to Cambridge, Kacen told the Globe...
...McRae, his companions and 15 followers marched "the last mile" yesterday morning from MIT along Mass Ave to Harvard in a light rain. McRae, Johnson and speakers from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and/the Harvard-Radcliffe SDS spoke on what they termed "apathy" and "racial insensitivity" on the part of academic institutions...
Shouting into the microphone, McRae told the crowd he was disappointed by the turn-out. "I'm remembering the traditions of Harvard I heard about all my life," McRae said, attacking "the concrete and steel" of Harvard and calling for more awareness by colleges of "institutional racism...
Every summer since 1965, when he helped found it, Taylor has made sure that the truck-borne bandstands of Jazzmobile have brought performers like Duke Ellington, Carmen McRae, Dizzy Gillespie and Taylor himself to the ghettos of New York and fifteen other U.S. cities. As Jazzmoblie's fundraising, talent-coordinating president, Taylor also gives two lecture-concerts a week in New York City's public schools and conducts a piano class in a workshop program at Harlem's Intermediate School 201 on Saturday mornings...