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...Monday, December 11, 1984. The Harvard Foundation hosted a reception and dinner for the honorable Dr. Benjamin Hooks, Executive Director of the NAACP. The event had a highly admirable purpose, the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the NAACP, but was handled in a most reprehensible manner. The Foundation brought Dr. Hooks to Harvard for a very private, invitation-only dinner attended by fewer than twenty undergraduates. Surely Dr. Counter who planned the festivities must have realized that a very large number of students, minority and majority, would have liked to have had the opportunity to hear Dr. Hooks speak...
...started in January with a visit by the late Reverend Martin Luther King Sr. for a Memorial Church service to honor the life of his son, and after 25 additional Foundation sponsored events, ended the year with a December 10th celebration of the Diamond Jubilee (75th anniversary) of the NAACP...
...fall of the 1984-85 academic year was especially productive. We hosted a Freshman Brunch for over 700 persons; a Memorial Church service for 900 persons to celebrate the life and work of South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize recipient; and the NAACP dinner for over 100 persons, including the organization's Executive Director, Dr. Benjamin Hooks, and his wife Frances Hooks. The Foundation is especially proud that all of these events were attended by students, faculty and staff of all races, backgrounds, colors and religions...
...furor issued from the Black students were so forceful I would have expected them to reach the usually acute ears of Crimson editors. These Black students were appalled to find out that Benjamin L. Hooks the executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of colored People(NAACP), came to visit Harvard University and they were not welcome to participate in the event...
...quicken, perhaps to one a week: by most reckonings, about 50 of the more than 1,400 inmates now on death row will be put to death. "There is no question that the system is gearing up," says Richard Brody, director of the anti-death-penalty project for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. "But even if 50 people were executed next year, another 250 new convicts would probably take their place on death rows around the country...