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...fate of the Corporal Burns Playground, which adjoins the new Married Students Housing Center, will be discussed at a meeting this afternoon between Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the president for civic affairs, and members of the Cambridge City Council...
Whitlock said yesterday that the University plans to offer to refurbish the playground, which will be used by over 300 Harvard children next year, at a cost of $200,000. However, he continued, he is prepared to discuss purchase of the land if the city offers to sell. The playground is the only piece of land along Memorial Drive between Boylston St. and Western Ave. not yet owned by the University...
Reports in yesterday's Globe and Record American, which said Harvard had offered to pay $2.6 million for the playground, were termed "completely wrong" by Whitlock. He said the University "has always been ready to bid for the land" but that as yet it has made no offers...
King decided to become a lawyer because he knew what it was like to be deprived of rights. On one occasion when he was ten years old, he was playing in a playground near his house when a policeman drove up and jumped out of his prowl car brandishing a gun. "All of us little colored boys ran like chickens," King recalls. "I hid under a building but some of the kids were arrested for 'vagrancy' or 'loitering.' Right then I felt that there was something wrong with the way the law operated in the Negro community...
Title III--Powers of the Attorney General: This section permits the Attorney General to file suit on behalf of a person denied access, on grounds of race, to any "publicly owned" facility, such as a public playground. The Attorney General would also have the right to in tervene in an already filed suit involving any breach, on account of race, of the "equal protection" clause of the Fourteenth Amendment...