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...Cabot House this April, Mecca J. Nelson '92 saw a poster announcing a speech sponsored by the conservative magazine Peninsula The speech, whose subject was the relationship of white liberalism in the 1960s to Black sexuality. was titled "Spade Kicks," and the poster portrayed a silhouette of a Black woman stripping for a white audience...

Author: By David A. Plotz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fighting for Change Without Burning Bridges | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

Appalled by the title of the speech and the picture on the poster, Nelson set out to do something about it. The day after the poster went up, Nelson had talked to a Peninsula staff member about it, and met with Assistant Dean of the College Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle and Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57. Within another two days, Nelson and another student had written a letter to The Crimson explaining why poster was offensive to Blacks...

Author: By David A. Plotz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fighting for Change Without Burning Bridges | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...That Nelson protest was both public and private is representative of her Harvard career. As president of the Black Students Association (BSA), but also in a vast variety of other activities, Nelson has struggled to educate other students about issues of race and gender and fought for change without burning bridges...

Author: By David A. Plotz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fighting for Change Without Burning Bridges | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...Nelson grew up in Flint, Michigan, a blue-collar automobile city whose decline was vividly documented in the film Roger and Me." She attended magnet public high school in Flint, and her experiences there helped spark her interest at Harvard...

Author: By David A. Plotz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fighting for Change Without Burning Bridges | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...John A. Cloud '93 Yin Y. Nawaday '94 Lan N. Nguyen '93 Philip P. Pan '93 Maggie S. Tucker '93 Joanna M. Weiss '94 FEATURE EDITOR: Ira E. Scoll '94 EDITORIAL EDITOR: John A. Cloud '93 PHOTOGRAPHY EDITORS: Amanda M. Dawson '94 Michael D. Rosenbaum '94 BUSINESS EDITORS: Nelson E. Famadas '94 Young Jin Lee '94 Michael A. Schoen '93 DESIGN EDITORS: James Cham '95 Nancy E. Greene '95 Dante E. A. Ramos '93 WATCHDOG Max Tucker STUFF CHAIRS: Alessandra M. Galloni '95 Elie G. Kaunfer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

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