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...Cabot House this April, Mecca J. Nelson '92 saw a poster announcing a speech sponsored by the conservative magazine Peninsula The speech, whose subject was the relationship of white liberalism in the 1960s to Black sexuality. was titled "Spade Kicks," and the poster portrayed a silhouette of a Black woman stripping for a white audience...
Appalled by the title of the speech and the picture on the poster, Nelson set out to do something about it. The day after the poster went up, Nelson had talked to a Peninsula staff member about it, and met with Assistant Dean of the College Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle and Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57. Within another two days, Nelson and another student had written a letter to The Crimson explaining why poster was offensive to Blacks...
...sign of summer is the sticky residue on every bald patch of open land in the greater Harvard area. Sure, the grass looks great now. But a month ago, any part of the Yard not under a building was drenched in blue-green chemicals. Harvard was like a gigantic poster child for the Rio conference...
...midst of the brouhaha, the conservative magazine Peninsula began advertising an upcoming speech with a poster entitled "Spade Kicks: A Symposium on Modernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of Sexual Liberation." The poster included a photo of a Black woman stripping for a white audience...
Several students objected to the poster, calling it racist and offensive. Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and Epps distributed two letters condemning the posters and reaffirming free speech rights...