Word: monroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monro also discussed the need for black studies programs in both schools and colleges. Quoting sevreal times from the report of the committee which discussed black studies at Harvard last spring, he said he was "most heartened" by work going on here in this area...
...Monro stated that the biggest task facing the black colleges is to educate disadvintaged black students who seem, "after twelve years of school, to be on the average at the 9th-or 10th-grade level. This is not a job the fast-moving, rich white colleges and universities can do, at least by themselves," Monro said...
...Monro listed Miles' central role in the Birmingham Head Start program, in retraining programs for industrial workes, in the fight against illiteracy among local adults, and in the regional VISTA program to illustrate the way in which the black colleges can perform a second function as centers for the development of institutional strength among black people...
Discussing his "new incarnation" as a white teacher in an all-black community. Monro praised the moderation and patience of all his students, particularly of one who is a Vietnam veteran. "The daily miracle of Miles College and the Birmingham black community... is that [this student] and his classmates, and parents, have not yet come to hate white people categorically," he said...
...article, Monro stressed the importance of strengthening the work in the early grades and urged continuing efforts to desegregate the public schools. He suggested that segregation is at least as harmful for whites as it is for blacks, causing in the whites a dangerous "sickness of soul...