Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peter Flaherty, 44, moved into the breach, challenged a mediocre organization candidate in the primary, and won. He looks like a Kennedy and is running independently of party headquarters. His main pitch is anti-bossism. He pleads for harmony between blacks and whites, who are bitterly divided by a Negro drive for more construction jobs...
...mayor can control the destiny of his city," he says. The nonpartisan race to replace him is not the clear-cut case of black v. white that many outsiders assume. Wayne County Sheriff Roman S. Gribbs, 43, is a moderate who has thoroughly integrated his department, appointed a top Negro deputy, eliminated brutality in a sorry county jail, and avoided simplistic solutions to crime problems. His opponent, County Auditor Richard H. Austin, 56, is the first Negro to make a serious bid for the Detroit mayoralty. Austin topped the primary and can expect the support of most black voters...
...called "certain expertise," as Paofessor Stewart puts it, of some black students in the field of Afro-American Studies but the open political threats of some militant extremists in the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Students Association that determined the Faculty's decision to give six Negro students full faculty status on the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies...
...daresay that neither Professor Stewart nor any other member of the Harvard Faculty who voted to this decision can adduce evidence to show that any of the Negro students on the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies has acquired the qualifications which would warrant calling them "experts" or "scholars" in the field of Afro-American Studies. None of these students has, to my knowledge, a B.A., M.A., or Ph.D. degree; none has published a scholarly paper, article or essay in the social sciences and the humanities; none has held a teaching position in Afro-American Studies in an institution...
...short, the "certain expertise" that Professor Stewart attributes to the six Negro students on the governing body of the Department of Afro-American Studies ?s, to put it bluntly, non-existent! It is, therefore, rather disingenuous of those members of the Faculty who supported the decision to place students on the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies to continue rationalizing their action in terms of the "certain expertise" of these students...