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...prominent civil rights activists also received degrees this morning at Harvard's 327th Commencement. Vernon E. Jordan, executive director of the National Urban League, and Roy Wilkins, former executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), both received Doctor of Laws citations...
...true; but the arguments to the contrary are just too immense. When the black leaders of South Africa themselves call for corporate withdrawal, I think it is fair to say that we should respect their perceptions. When the United Nations General Assembly, the World Council of Churches, the NAACP, the Pan-Africanist Congress, the National Congress of South Africa, the Black Consciousness movement, the Congressional Black Caucus, the AFL-CIO and so many, many others say "withdraw," then I wonder: upon what do we base our supposedly "moral" decision to stay...
...committee turns a deaf ear on the will of the majority of Harvard's undergraduates--a will clearly expressed through a variety of petitions, demonstrations, House, freshman and organizational votes. Harvard students are joined in their demands by a host of national and international groups, ranging from the NAACP to the Congressional Black Caucus to the U.N. General Assembly. Most reprehensibly, however, the ACSR has chosen to consciously ignore the will of South Africa's black population itself; almost every black student organization and leader not yet banned from South Africa--and those remaining are the moderate groups by almost...
...NAACP held a rally on Saturday afternoon featuring comedian and political activist Dick Gregory, and Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP...
...NAACP and student groups began organizing this weekend's demonstrations two weeks ago when Vanderbilt announced its intention to host the tennis matches...