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...succeed in Cambridge,” she said. But other community members said they were displeased with the school committee’s choice. “I watched the school committee take Cambridge back 30 years,” said Kathy A. Reddick, president of the Cambridge NAACP, who added that she thought the decision was insulting. “All she’s good enough to be is an assistant?” Over a third of students in Cambridge public schools are black, according to the district’s Web site. Some parents...
...Hope Franklin, 94, bridged the gap between black history and American history, documenting how blacks and whites coexisted and how widely their experiences differed. Educated at the historically black Fisk University, Franklin earned two postgraduate degrees from Harvard and in 1995 received a Presidential Medal of Freedom and the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for his contribution to African-American history...
...honor 12 civil-rights pioneers the same year marking the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, the 100th anniversary of the founding the NAACP, the 80th anniversary of the reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the inauguration of President, and Harvard Law School graduate, Barack Obama is a worthy tribute. We ought to commend Professor Gates for his extraordinary efforts to honor these giants in this way, and I hope this letter brings him some measure of the thanks he rightly deserves...
...said Katherine Lydon, the postmaster of the Cambridge Post Office. Issued by the United States Postal Service, the new stamp series pays homage to such civil rights giants as Oswald Garrison Villard, one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and assassinated NAACP official Medgar W. Evers in addition to Houston. Though a more general release celebration occurred in New York City, Saturday’s Cambridge event, held in the Zero Arrow Theatre, focused specifically on Law School graduate Houston. Born in 1895, Houston served as the NAACP Litigation Director, pioneering a novel...