Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your analysis of the Riot Report was excellent. There is one point that I believe was not emphasized sufficiently: The Negro was forced to migrate from the rural South to the larger cities of the U.S. I suggest that the commission seek remedial action in these Southern states that still practice overt racism in practically every form, not only by white individuals, as is done in other parts of the country, but also by agencies, private as well as state. Subjecting white Southern society to law enforcement regarding civil rights would stop the migration of Negroes to our congested cities...
Hamilton came to Harvard in the midst of the public controversy surrounding the Kerner Report. As a result, recurring questions centered around urban unrest and violence as a component in the strategy of independent, Black Power politics...
...understood in terms of the grave psychological dilemma which blacks in America are breaking out of." Taken to its conclusion, Hamilton's implication is that blacks are through with the self-demeaning black mentality which is reinforced institutionally by the subtle and pervasive racism of which the Kerner Report spoke...
...done his homework, and he drew often from recent experience outside the classroom. He faced questions directly, often taking them beyond their obvious conclusions, and always with striking candor. To the question of what the white's role is in Black Power politics, Hamilton quickly replied: "The (Kerner) Report speaks to whites, not blacks; what happens as a result of it depends on whites. Your place is in the white community just as ours is in the black community. Your work in the white community--changing the deeply ingrained racism--is as crucial as ours...
Last week, the Harvard Policy Committee approved its "Report on the Houses," which was essentially a compendium of the perennial complaints about the House system. It also contained suggestions for improving the Houses, but the HPC emphasized that these were not definite proposals, merely a "platform for discussion." As such, the report means little, but it should remind the Administration that the present House system is not universally popular...