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Robert Pressman and Eric VanLoon, two of the lawyers for the NAACP, are now employed by the Harvard Center for Law and Education. Pressman now serves as the center's director, and a third plaintiff attorney, J. Harold Flannery, is the former acting director...
Sullivan, who represents the school committee in its fight against Judge Arthur H. Garrity's desegregation order, said that since the three attorneys representing the plaintiff NAACP also have Harvard connections. Keppel and Willie should not serve on the panel...
Other committee members include: Charles Adams of the Hartford Ave. Baptist Church in Detroit; Jean Fairfax, a NAACP administrator in New York; Rev. William Guy, pastor of the Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta and Rev. Otis Moss of the Mt. Zoin Baptist Church near Cincinnati. Adams and Guy are alumni of the Divinity School...
Despite Bok's professed support for the concept of Afro-American Studies programs, not much needs to be said about the way Harvard has treated its own Afro department. Bok can talk all he wants to the NAACP about efforts aimed at "strengthening the faculty of Afro-American Studies," but the fact remains that despite numerous pledges Harvard has only one tenured professor in the field. The University evidently had an opportunity to add a second last spring, but missed its chance when it failed to give him free and complete access to the research facilities of the W.E.B. DuBois...
...Jewish Organizations, and was backed by 32 Jewish groups around the U.S. Not all participants, however, were Jewish. Among those who addressed the crowd-in addition to former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban and ex-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan -were Democratic Senator Henry Jackson and Roy Wilkins of the NAACP...