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What accounts for the charges? As best I can make out from The Crimson, Suze used a student essay containing the phrase "nigger maid" as a prose model. Also, she required that her students read the essay by X.J. Kennedy entitled "Who Killed King Kong?", in which Kennedy sees Kong as "a black superman figure." I do not have access to the first essay cited, the student essay, but I have read Kennedy's piece, and I gladly tell of it: it comprises twelve paragraphs, only one of which, the second to last, deals with black response to King Kong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teacher's Fear | 3/1/1977 | See Source »

...example of what the students call Craig's "practice" of "discouraging black students" in her section of Expos 17, "Theory and Practice of Writing," the letter says that Craig used an essay that refers to a "nigger maid" as an example of model student writing...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Teacher Charged With Degrading Blacks | 2/25/1977 | See Source »

...administrator. In 1969 she resigned after one month as dean of Howard's School of Law, protesting the university's leniency to student demands. When one student insisted on a male replacement, she told him coldly: "I didn't stop being the white man's nigger to become a black man's nigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Two for One Deal | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...attributes he will bring to the U.N. are a fine speaking style, an attractive family (he has four children) and an indefinable quality that makes people trust him. Also diplomatic experience in the harshest sense. As he once put it: "I was taught to fight when people called me nigger. That's when I learned that negotiation is better than fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Gadfly in a Suicide Post | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...incident to 400 black clergymen. But King has a reputation for antics. When he ran for the Albany city council, he distributed a poster showing him sticking out his tongue and waving his fingers near his ears. The caption: "You've tried everything else. Now try a crazy nigger." His brother C.B. King, an attorney, assured a Carter rally that Clennon was "emotionally and mentally disturbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACE RELATIONS: Test for Carter in His Backyard | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

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