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...Close It Down." Students at Negro colleges are bitterly resentful of their own lack of campus freedom. Dillard students recently boycotted Sunday vesper services simply because they were compulsory. At Washington's Howard University, even though retiring President James M. Nabrit Jr., 67, praised "the spirit of revolt" at a convocation, more than 100 students walked out to protest his dismissal of 23 faculty and student activists this summer. The militant students cheered Sociology Professor Nathan Hare's declaration that "you got to close this place down...
After seven years as president of Howard University, James M. Nabrit Jr. stepped out at a time of unprecedented strife on the nation's largest Negro campus (enrollment: 11,000, about 12% white). Though Nabrit a generation ago was a pioneering court room lawyer in the civil rights movement, he found himself branded a reactionary last spring when a spree of black-power incidents struck his campus. Militant pacifists booed Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey off a stage, burned Nabrit and Hershey in effigy, boycotted classes...
...Nabrit charged 18 students with staging "disruptive" campus incidents, then waited for the close of the semester to oust them and five sympathetic faculty members. On the day his resignation was announced, Nabrit was listening to protests about the firings from representatives of the American Association of University Professors. Nabrit is 66, would not have been required to retire for another year...
...course, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins adds that it is ominously similar to South Africa's apartheid policy, only turned topsy-turvy. Black power, says Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young Jr., is indistinguishable from the bigotry of "Bilbo, Talmadge and Eastland." Besides, notes Howard University President James Nabrit Jr., currently on leave to serve as U.S. Permanent Deputy Representative to the U.N., "common sense should tell us that 20 million Negroes in a country of 180 million whites need the help of the white majority." And J. H. Jackson, the president of the Negro National Baptist Convention, made...
...will always have its poor. This is much like those who a hundred years ago were sure that there were some who were born to be slaves. Is our vision such that we can look beyond the stars but dare not gaze upon the face of the earth?"-James Nabrit Jr., deputy U.S. representative to the U.N., at St. Lawrence University...