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...first 13 trainees survived the rigorous course and the corrosive racism of some white flight instructors. Former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and prominent New York City businessman Percy Sutton were among the 992 African Americans who eventually passed through Tuskegee--only to discover that they were still second-class citizens in the eyes of the military. The Tuskegee units were continually passed over for combat assignments. According to Charles ("Chief") Anderson, who headed the group of African-American civilian flight instructors training the Tuskegee pilots, there were several suicides and daredevil fatalities among the intensely frustrated young flyers. Things began...
...Herzegovina was illegally proclaimed as an independent state and recognized. That recognition was like when the Roman Emperor Caligula appointed his horse as a Senator: they recognized a state that never existed before. The Serbs there said, "We want to stay within Yugoslavia. We don't want to be second-class citizens." And then the conflicts were started by Muslims, no doubt. And the Serbs, in defending themselves, were always better fighters, no doubt. And they achieved results, no doubt. But please, we were insisting on peace. The international community gave premature recognition first of Slovenia and then of Croatia...
...they seem, for many undergraduate women whom I've talked to, to be merely words on paper that haven't yet materialized into reality. And for many alumnae that I've spoken to, Radcliffe is nothing more than a painful reminder of a time when they were relegated to second-class status at Harvard...
...hated the school, she confided in us, hated the fact that as a Radcliffe woman, she was treated as what she termed a "second-class citizen," suffering snubs--and, at times, overt hostility--from male professors indignant at the female students who invaded their classes. She recounted one particular incident, drawing out the details with grim satisfaction--she had written a short story, and her professor had told her that, while her work was strong and she was obviously quite talented, she was wasting time better spent looking for a husband. The result was that...
Some have hailed the recent federal court ruling against Brown University as another step in the crusade for equal treatment of women in athletics. They see the scolding of a prestigious university as a long awaited acknowledgment of the second-class status of women's sports at colleges around the country...