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Students at Cambridge’s public high school say they interact with students of many different ethnic and racial backgrounds and feel this diversity holds educational benefits, according to a report released yesterday by the Harvard Law School’s Civil Rights Project...
...defunct Oklahoma newspaper, two pages from May 31, 1921, have been clipped away. Researchers believe they contained an inflammatory news story and an editorial--"To Lynch a Negro Tonight"--that egged on the men who set off that year's Tulsa riot, one of the worst episodes of racial violence in American history. When students of the event went looking for those pages, what they found was a blank space...
...School in New York City, provides what is essentially a history of racism in the 100 years after the Civil War, when blacks were set free into a society that instantly contrived new ways to confine, exploit and humiliate them. Lynching became the semiofficial machinery by which the racial caste system was held in place. "We will not endure it forever," W.E.B. DuBois, co-founder of the N.A.A.C.P., warned after one grotesque burning. "If we are to die, in God's name let us perish like men and not like bales...
...potential lynching that led to the Tulsa upheaval, in which Greenwood, the city's black neighborhood, was burned to the ground by whites. As author Hirsch points out, that murderous episode was not so much a riot as a racial pogrom--"the liquidation of virtually an entire black community and the institutions that held it together." It started with a white woman charging assault against a shoeshine man who had been alone with her in a department-store elevator. She later withdrew the charge, but not before a mob of whites had gathered outside the jailhouse where...
Boston City Council member Chuck Turner ’62 said that the issue of improving workers’ wages is also a racial matter...