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...fellow representatives, "does it mean that we should also finance, using millions of dollars, research centers aimed solely at changing social policy? The Harvard research center actually had attorneys, who were paid with OEO funds, doing the research which led to their joining as co-sponsors with the NAACP in the Detroit segregation case... Meanwhile, Congress is overwhelmingly opposed to busing." Then, finishing with a flourish, Green declared that "these offices have become the cutting edge for social change in this country...
...with local service groups in communities throughout the country. J. Harold Flannery, the center's director at the time the Detroit case was initiated in 1971, had become nationally known for his work on school desegregation in his five-year term with the Department of Justice. When the Detroit NAACP decided to bring the case against the Detroit school board, they came to Flannery for help. He directed many of the center's resources into an analysis of the highly complex allegations of discrimination made against the city's school board. Flannery himself argued the case successfully before...
Another case whose prosecution would have been impaired without the center's help, in Flannery's opinion, is the Boston desegregation case, which Flannery also successfully argued on behalf of the NAACP before Judge W. Arthur Garrity in the U.S. Court of Appeals last month. "It is fatuous to say the Boston case wouldn't have been brought without the center," Flannery says, "but the center had a major role...
...people, both black and white, don't buy Leonard's liberal dream anymore. In some ways, Leonard, a life member of the NAACP who gave up a business career in Atlanta when he was 35 to enter Howard Law School, is a relic of an earlier age of black activism. If he and militant black students do not see eye to eye it is no accident. But Leonard persists, trying to do what he can to make the system work...
...civil rights movement seems to have reached Harvard in earnest around the summer of 1963, the first summer that a significant number of students went down South to work in voter registration projects, mostly under the aegis of the Congress on Racial Equality or the NAACP. A number of Harvard students were arrested that summer, and at least one--John N. Perdew '64, shot at and arrested during an SNCC demonstration in Americus, Ga.--spent more than three months in jail, while his friends in Kirkland House raised $2000 for his defense only to have the Supreme Court strike down...