Word: racism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...claims have no objections to promoting the painters' helpers at one swoop. If so, it would appear to be a small miracle: that white workers-particularly the Irish Bostonians who are a large part of Harvard's work force-had completely escaped from even a trace of that racism which SDS is normally so ready, willing and able to trace in our society...
...Tell him [Butler] about racism," Hy-land interjected at one point while Krim was speaking. Hyland remarked that he found it difficult to sit in the same room as Butler...
...position on important matters-like money-until it is pressured. Specifically. the issue is whether Harvard University is going to pay an equal and fair wage to black and white painters for doing the same job. On a more general level it is a question of subtle but insidious racism and a nineteenth-century wage policy. Harvard should not be allowed to get away with it in 1969. if it ever should have...
Sexism is their target and battle cry -as racism is the blacks'. They regard 20th century America as a rigid, male-dominated society which, deliberately or more often unconsciously, perpetuates arrant inequities between men and women-in pay, kinds of jobs and, more subtly, self-expression. Women, they say, are constantly put down by the ads that ask "Does she ... or doesn't she?" or proclaim "You've come a long way, baby," because, of all things, she has supposedly got her own cigarette. The militants abhor Playboy as well as most women's magazines, which...
...week in December. As usual, the issue must be settled Now even at the risk of disrupting the University. And, as usual. SDS presents some cosmic notion which links all the issues, all the structures, and all the decision-makers into one massive, incomprehensible blob; wage inequities, black worker, racism, May, Corporation, Bosses, Evil...