Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the heretofore wide-open Club 100 refused to admit two undergraduates last week, Harvard was faced with its first taste of public racial discrimination within memory. Until last Saturday evening members of the College community were under the impression that decent conduct was the only qualification determining which public places a man could enter and which he could not. The announced stand of the management of the Club 100 now means that the philosophy of public segregation has taken root at one point in Cambridge and must be opposed by students and other members of the community who view...
...gather there, must not be mistaken for a legal or moral case. While Harvard students and all comers receive the mantle of membership at the door of the organization, an fulfill the other obligations of membership by filing this charter in their wallets, the law of Massachusetts proscribing racial discrimination stands flouted and helpless in the fact of a direct violation of its spirit and intent...
Ordinarily the committee does not act in cases concerning individuals, she added. Their most effective weapon in situations suggesting racial tension has been to attack the roots of hatred found within law enforcement and civic organizations...
...feel that this method of enforcing membership rules has been in effect nothing more or less than racial discrimination. We strongly suggest that an all-University committee be set up to investigate this situation and take what action it deems necessary...
...Elimination of racial and religious questions on college application blanks; 2) placement of students on college administration groups charged with formulating admissions policy; 3) establishment or race relations at various schools; 4) exchange of colored and white students between colleges; 5) support of such bills as the Fair Employment Practices Commission proposal...