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...Several other groups, however-including the Mississippi Council on Human Relations, the NAACP, and the Southern Regional Council-have been conducting their own studies of the company. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights-an independent Federal agency-also recently concluded an investigation. Commission spokesmen said yesterday that final results would not be available until next week, but that the study revealed "serious problems of discrimination...
...This is a general alienation." explained Derrick Bell, a lecturer on law and former attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. "Some of it is based on ambivalence-what the hell is a young, aware, militant black doing at Harvard anyhow...
...DuBois left Great Barrington to make his place in the world: to challenge and ultimately defeat Booker T. Washington: to found, in effect, the NAACP: and to become the father of twentieth century black intellectuals. His efforts to solve the American racial dilemma led him to take varied political positions, from black nationalism to Communism. Finally, surrendering all home in America, he want to Africa where he died in 1963. Last week a small portion of the world made its way to a small field, just off Route 23 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts to pay homage to this...
Alvin T. Thompson, president of the Cambridge NAACP, said Thursday he had nothing against Larry E. Kinnard, the black from Cincinnati hash for the job, but he felt there "ought to be enough people in Cambridge and Boston to find someone locally for the post...
Harvard personnel director John B. Butler replied that "Our recruiting effort lasted many months and included many local candidates. We did not find one who satisfied our requirements as exceptionally as Mr. Kinnard does. They [the NAACP] seem to say that we ruled out local people and went out to the foothills of Cincinnali to find someone. This is not the case...