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Thomson Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez will speak about how to apply children's stories to business styles. Professor of Physics Melissa Franklin will speak about quarks. And Associate Professor of History and of Social Studies James Goodman will give a speech titled "Stories of Scottsboro and Other Stories...
...through the decades. The 1930s' Scottsboro Boys (race, sex, the myth of endangered white female virtue, which was always the Southern white man's reverse rape projection). The 1940s' Alger Hiss case (emergent cold war and its anxieties of communist infiltration). In the 1960s, the Chicago Seven trial (Vietnam, the crisis of American authority); in the 1970s, Watergate. In the 1980s, insider trading...
...urge those persons who are establishing ground rules on sexual harassment to be mindful of the social and psychological dynamics involved and to read about the Scottsboro Case in 1931 and the case of Willie Saunders here in Boston three years ago. David L. Evans Senior Admissions Officer Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges
DIED. Muriel Rukeyser, 66, American poet of social protest; of a heart attack; in New York City. After dropping out of Vassar in 1932, she published a poem on the Scottsboro trial (in which nine black Alabama youths were accused of raping two white girls) that foreshadowed a concern with injustice that remained the theme of her poetry and her life. Though critics complained that her "message became more important to her than [its] expression," when her Collected Poems appeared in 1978 they also praised her devotion to the dissident muse named in her first book, Theory of Flight...
Decatur has a past. The celebrated Scottsboro boys case of the 1930s-in which eight of nine black youths were sentenced to death on highly dubious charges of raping two white women-was retried there and led to four new convictions. Decatur peacefully integrated its schools and public facilities in the 1960s, but as soon as Hines was indicted in June, racial tension began rising. Demonstrators from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference appeared in front of the city hall and put up tents on the grass. Hines' arrest was "a setup," said the Rev. R.B. Cotton-reader, a leader...