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...Brooke doesn't talk much about being black. "The very hardest kind of opponent for a black candidate," Thomas Pettigrew, professor of Social Psychology and Sociology, observes, "is a liberal white who is careful not to bring any racism into the campaign." Pettigrew, a one-time Brooke advisor, says the Senator runs relatively non-racial campaigns--he's not comfortable with the role of "the black Senator" that has been thrust upon him. Only when he fell sharply in the polls in his race against Peabody in 1966 did he give a talk about "being black--it wasn't blatant...
...bringing black and women leaders into the state on his own behalf. It's not that the black vote in Massachusetts has historically been anything to write home about--just that some feel it could be. It's the one factor that can balance the private life issue, says Pettigrew, and draw white liberals into the Brooke camp...
...mind he marched with Pickett and Pettigrew in the masses of the main charge across the rolling fields and up to the stone fence and over, where the Confederacy reached its high-water mark. He stood in his imagination for a moment with the few troops who had breached the Union line, his heart working to grasp the commotion and the meaning of those terrible days 115 years ago at Gettysburg...
Thomas F. Pettigrew, Harvard sociology professor: "The Dallas plan was a joke. Boston set out to desegregate its schools. Dallas set out to attempt to avoid desegregating its schools...
...Affirmative action is absolutely essential to racial progress," Thomas F. Pettigrew, professor of social psychology and sociology, and one of the Harvard signatories, said yesterday...