Word: racially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member of the board of directors of a Harvard-affiliated honor society has charged the group with racial discrimination in a complaint filed last month with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), agency officials said this week...
Created in 1946 as the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC), the commission was expected to fill the gap left by the demise of a similar federal program in the aftermath of World War II. Previously--in 1943--the state had approved the Massachusetts Committee on Racial and Religious Understanding in response to racerelated violence around the country...
...Allen says, "it has started to increase again because issues of sex and race are pertinent again." Allen says the publicity surrounding recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions against single sex clubs has put this type of complaint back in the public eye. Most complainants file claims of gender or racial discrimination...
...writing error, an editorial column in the Sept. 28 edition of The Crimson, "A Return to Racial Sensitivity" by Michael J. Bonin, misrepresented the views of Camille Holmes '89. While Holmes said she feels the University is responsible for the problems with the Afro-American Studies Department and the low number of minority faculty, she recognizes the University has made efforts to address these problems...
Holmes recommends that a course or official discussions of American racial and ethnic groups would be helpful, particularly during freshman year. Such a program, she explains, would heighten racial sensitivity. "Everyone makes different racial discoveries, and that is the first step toward a solution...