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...ardent pacifist and fighter for civil rights, Rustin has been involved in the movement for racial equality since his days as youth coordinator for A. Philip Randolph's March on Washington. Special assistant to the late Rev. Martin Luther King and the chief organizer of the civil rights March on Washington of August, 1963, Rustin has continually espoused non-violence and has advocated fundamental changes in the U.S. socioeconomic order...
...Equality and director of the first New York City public school boycott. He has been arrested 23 times for the causes of civil rights and peace, once spending 22 days on a chain gang in North Carolina. Since 1964, he has served as executive director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, a service center and clearinghouse for civil rights groups...
Women and minorities are not being guaranteed high posts at universities because affirmative action programs are "impotent," Nancy Randolph, special assistant to President Bok, said yesterday...
...still vote for affirmative action because it is a tool that surfaces the trouble even if it doesn't solve the problem," Randolph added...
Present social and economic conditions have stopped all but the most determined or foolhardy women from academic careers, Randolph said. She added there would be a "vanishing pool of women" professors available...