Word: pettigrews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Carolina convention would be the Boston School Committee. With secession no longer an issue--at least for northern states--the crucial vote would concern the question of de facto segregation. And in the shoes of James L. Petigru would be his Virginian-born descendent, Thomas Fraser Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Psychology--whose course on racial prejudice and desegregation, Social Relations 134, has become the academic stronghold of the Harvard civil rights movement...
Like his ancestor, whom he calls, "my patron saint--the rest of the Pettigrews were real bastards"--Pettigrew is a rebel, and loves it. On the day he was to testify before the Boston School Committee on the psychological effects of school segregation, he told a class that he hoped Committeewoman Mrs. Louise Day Hicks would charge him with being an outside agitator...
Thomas F. Pettigrew, lecturer on Social Sciences, has been appointed on associate professor of Social Relations, President Pusey announced Monday...
...Pettigrew teaches Social Relations 134 ("Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations"), which analyzes American racial relations, and, with Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology, Social Relations 284 ("'Group Conflict and Prejudice...
Reached at home last night, Pettigrew dismissed Eisenstadt's statement as "incorrect." He also denied the charge of William E. O'Connor, chairman of the School Committee, that the School of Education had supported the boycott and thus proved itself prejudiced in the dispute...