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...Assembly position opposing the renaming contends that Engelhard opposed apartheid and supported the political campaigns of former President John F. Kennedy '40 and Robert F. Kennedy '48, and that the Engelhard Foundation has given money to the United Negro Fund, the National Urban League, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...that Lyndon Johnson joined liberal Senators Edward Kennedy '54, Harrison Williams, Hubert Humphrey and Mike Mansfield at the Engelhard funeral in 1971. And Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison notes that Mansfield is a director of the Engelhard Foundation and that the Foundation has given money to the United Negro College Fund, the National Urban League and to community organizations in Newark, New Jersey (The Boston Globe, Oct. 25, 1978, page...
...credible to contend that Harvard, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Mike Mansfield, Harrison Williams, Hubert Humphrey, the United Negro College Fund and the National Urban League would openly welcome the friendship or money of an exploiter...
...Southern police official summed up justice for blacks before World War I, "If a nigger kills a white man, that's murder. If a white man kills a nigger, that's justifiable homicide. If a nigger kills another nigger, that's one less nigger." Or, as a Negro blues song put it, "White folks and nigger in great Co't house/ Like Cat down Cellar wit' no-hole mouse." The melting pot was a myth for blacks. While 60% of white immigrants in Boston moved from unskilled to skilled or white-collar jobs after a generation, blacks stagnated in "Negro...
Finally, it must be recognized that, given the massive economic and mobility needs of half of the Negro population (the marginal working class and lower class), it makes no sense whatever for black students to enter the nationl job market without first having maximized widespread peer linkages--both friendship and strategic in nature--with as many white and non-black students as possible. In time, these transcultural peer ties can be more than merely individual benefits; as some of one's white peer becom governors, financiers, managers, legislators, etc., the peer linkages forged at Harvard become potential agencies of actions...