Word: reddick
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Southern responds to Rivera's charges by saying that the University allows the department a budget that provides for the hiring of only one visiting faculty member per year, and that she promised next year's position to Lawrence D. Reddick, professor of History at Temple University, in March 1976 after Reddick told Southern he could not come to Harvard for the 1976-'77 academic year...
Your article in the May 5 Crimson about L.D. Reddick deserves "congratulations." In past years The Crimson simply ignored the Afro-American Studies Department's many outstanding accomplishments or enveloped them in controversy as is still fashionable...
...anonymous observers of the department who, you say, hope that "one day...there would be a Reddick permanent tenured-professorship" are uninformed on several counts...
First, in December 1970, at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Boston, I lunched with Dr. Reddick and advised him of the department's eagerness to have him join us as a tenured professor. He indicated interest on condition that the University was serious about the Du Bois Institute. I suggested he write to the appropriate officer of the administration which he did. He never received even an acknowledgement much less information which he requested about the status of and plans for making the Institute a worthwhile endeavor to enhance Afro-American Studies at Harvard...
Second, Dr. Reddick is now 66 years old and hardly a candidate for tenure...