Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When I entered college some 25 years ago, just about 85 per cent of all blacks attending college were enrolled at Negro colleges. Today this situation is reversed--some 80 per cent of blacks in college attend white colleges...
...occupational distribution of Negro graduates of Harvard in the era 1920s-1960s was also exceptional. Nearly 20 per cent entered business, 8 per cent science and technology, 13 per cent scholarship, 18 per cent medicine and 15 per cent law. On the other hand, the vast majority of graduates of Negro colleges in this period followed careers in education--overwhelmingly as public school teachers...
Thus a significant number of black graduates of Harvard and similar colleges in the years 1920s to early 1960s entered the national or cosmopolitan elites. It is also apparent that a number of black graduates of elite colleges also joined th local elites in Negro communities around the country. In this latter role, they taught in superior Negro high schools like Dunbar High in Washington, D.C., edited Negro newspapers, were prominent lawyers, doctors, politicians...
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...
...Mormons hold that all people possess an unremembered spirit existence before birth. Discussing black priesthood in 1951, the First Presidency stated that the church rejects original sin and believes that each individual is punished in earthly life for his own failings. This implies, the Presidency said then, that "the Negro is punished or allotted to a certain position on this earth ... because of his failure to achieve other stature in the spirit world...