Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Student Council deplores racial discrimination either in the college or in public places. While we recognize the legal right of bona fide private clubs to restrict membership in any way they see fit, we feel that any public place should be open to all persons, regardless of race or color...
...only case of anyone being asked to show a membership card which has been called to the attention of the Council has been recent case of two Negro undergraduates who were refused admittance on the grounds of their not being members of the club...
Regarding his membership policy, Jarvis stated last night, "All you have to do is be in the club and ask for a card, and you're a member...
Anxious to conform to the regulations, Bowser then requested membership. Jarvis took the group into his office, had them all leave their names, and said that "application forms" would be sent to them through the mails. Cater and Jordan left for their half-empty drinks, and Bowser and Pierce for the sidewalk...
...desk a bill, passed by Congress' rightist majority, designed to block Concha's efforts and to maintain existing farm labor conditions. The bill restricted each union to the fundo (estate) where its members worked, forbade them to federate, and banned the troublemaking migrant workers from membership. Cream of the clauses was one stipulating that only literate workers could join. This barred 90% of the campesinos...