Word: segregationism
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Seven years after the Brown school- desegregation decision, six years after the Montgomery bus boycott, the Congress of Racial Equality had dispatched a few buses loaded with Freedom Riders--young Negro civil rights workers and a few whites--to challenge segregation laws in various public facilities in the Deep South...
Segregation in student groups was the issue up for debate at a panel discussion in Emerson Hall last night.
Before an audience of 28 people, participants representing 10 of the College's student organization attempted to identify the sources of segregation they and others perceived within their respective organization and proposed solutions to remedy it.
Though the segregation identified by panelists occurred along predominantly "racial-ethnic" lines, socio-economic and ideological division also received attention.
Emily Yu-Chi Yang '01 is a government and East Asian Studies concentrator in Pennypacker Hall. A panel discussion on extracurricular segregation at Harvard, co-sponsored by various student organizations, will be held tonight at 8 p.m. in Emerson 305.