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Ruby Bridges, who became the first black student to attend an all-white New Orleans school in 1960, described her childhood experience with racism to a packed Memorial Church audience yesterday...
Bridges said her firsthand confrontation with racism as a child continues to shape her opinions about racism in America today. She said she hoped audience members, many of whom were young children, would learn from her story...
...pass racism on to our children, Bridges said. “And it continues to grow.” Bridges spoke about her brother, who was killed...
Currently, Bridges travels around the country to lecture at schools about racism...
Harvard has driven away another brilliant African-American professor, Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 (Online Breaking News, “Harvard Loses West to Princeton,” April 12). The truth is that Harvard College is still a stronghold of institutionalized racism, which has reluctantly allowed some black scholars to exist in its midst. I can say that because I spent four years of my life on the campus. In the 1960s and 70s, we African-American students had to take over Harvard’s main administration building in order to persuade...