Word: obu
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Dates: during 1969-1969
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...statement yesterday, OBU also requested black Faculty members and administrators to join them. "White students can do as they please," OBU member Roger Wareham said...
...University feels it can cover up its racist practices through intimidation. Last week they temporarily suspended members of OBU, and now they have suspended 16 students and punished eight more for the sit-in at Dean May's office...
...OBU leaders would not say whether the members planned to resign from the University, or how long the strike would last. "It is an open-ended thing," said one OBU member...
...OBU statement accused Harvard of "racist and discriminatory hiring practices" and said that as an American institution Harvard has been built "on foundations of forced black labor." It said the only legitimate purpose of blacks on this campus is "to study and push for the liberation of all African peoples...
...OBU has demanded a 20 per cent quota of minority-group workers on Harvard construction sites. "For each day Harvard delays in meeting the 20 per cent demand, that percentage should go up. That is the price Harvard must pay for having benefited from the exploitation of black people," the statement said...