Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sharp differentiation of Negroes as a sub-community within white Harvard, and the gnawing ambivalence of loyalty experienced by Negro students who feel forced to choose between their differentiated black sub-community and Harvard in general, have combined to have a nearly disastrous impact on the academic achievement and intellectual growth of Negro students...
...haste to play the role of the omniscient Negro scholar, the professor has descended to a level of reportage suggestive of the grossest kind of journalistic and scientific irresponsibility. ...He genuinely believes, it seems, that there is no significance in cultural blackness unless it apes or imitates white cultural norms every step of the way....There is a chauvinism in these beliefs that is both obvious and despicable...
...serving in U.S. cities and towns, including Newark and Gary. That is not surprising, because those cities have black majorities. But last week brought the most dramatic evidence yet of black political progress. Los Angeles, the nation's third largest city, elected its first black mayor, although the Negro population is a distinct (18%) minority. City Councilman Thomas Bradley won because enough whites regarded him not as a black politician but simply as a man deserving of their vote...
Ossie Davis, L.H.D., playwright. You have brought back to the Negro theater oldfashioned, honest laughter. Gwendolyn Brooks, Lit.D., poet...
Prof. Bell and other black separatists among Negro faculty have a right to differ with me, but it is ridiculous to characterize my view as a "vicious slande," of black students. There is nothing slanderous in the statement that bad admissions decisions by Harvard's admissions office is partly responsible for the poor intellectual and academic performance of black students. This is simply a question of fact, and Prof. Bell cannot remove it by rhetorical outbursts...