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Epps arrived at Harvard in 1958 via Talladega College, a small, black school in Alabama, where he majored in psychology. He later received a degree at the Divinity School. In 1963, he became an assistant dean of the College, serving an apprenticeship of sorts under John U. Monro '34, then dean of the College and now director of freshman studies at a black college in Alabama. Epps describes himself during this period as a "back-bencher" at meetings of the Administrative Board...
...those days you were called a 'baby' dean and you were allowed to attend meetings of the Board and listen to the cases being discussed by the senior tutors and the 'big' deans," Epps says. "John Monro told me that I should keep my mouth shut for one year and just listen...
...future of Miles, Monro is optimistic. He predicts that Miles will eventually integrate its student body "up to a critical mass of maybe 30 per cent--but this is at least ten years away." For now, he is working on an exchange program with predominantly white colleges--including Harvard--as "a way for the white youngster to work out this racism--this part of himself...
...Monro plans to remain at Miles, and in his same Freshman Studies position. There, he faces a problem which the dean of Harvard College cannot attack--that of making education and society accessible to those who find themselves "out of reach...
...main issue we'll have to keep confronting is respect--that's the start--when confidence isn't by skin color," Monro says. "Relating somehow to the sound black college offers one orderly, rational way to begin to tear down the barriers we have built around ourselves." Without Miles College and its educational and organizational objectives, the future of Birmingham's black community probably would differ little from its past. Monro and other educators believe that unless colleges like Miles have a future, respect for the black community will continue to be defined in terms of boycotts and demonstrations, rather...