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...rebellious students complained that minorities on campus would be particularly hurt by the budget reductions and that Brown was not honoring a 1968 commitment to recruit more minority students and faculty. In an attempt to justify the sit-in, Vincent McKnight, a black senior who spoke for the dissidents, simply said, "Because we're on the bottom rung of the ladder, we just had to do something decisive...
...rally begins at noon on the steps of the MIT Student Center and will proceed to the offices of the Department of Nuclear Engineering where a sit-in is planned...
Conceivably that could yet become the case, especially if South Viet Nam's military forces were about to collapse and President Ford were to propose any kind of U.S. air or naval rescue effort. But at the moment the rhetoric, and even the tired bombing and sit-in tactics, were misleading. The U.S. public, worried about unemployment, recession, inflation and energy, clearly was in no mood for a renewed argument over Southeast Asia. A question among Washington politicians was why the Ford Administration, fighting on so many fronts, was risking a new confrontation over the lingering...
Coleman helped draft the brief that led to the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation. He defended Freedom Riders and sit-in demonstrators in the 1960s and represented the N.A.A.C.P. in a case that found unconstitutional a Florida law prohibiting cohabitation between the races. At the request of former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, he led the legal fight to desegregate Girard College in 1965. Coleman served on the Eisenhower National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, President Kennedy's Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Warren Commission and the federal Price Commission...
However, the mayor is unable to deal with a black sit-in in his office, a police riot and a machine-dominated Housing Commission. When the police rampage through a peaceful black neighborhood, beating people and wrecking stores, Kramer refuses to mount his own investigation, leaving the matter in the hands of the F.B.I. The reform mayor shrugs like an old regular--it is too hot an issue to touch. If the Police and Fire Board had held hearings, he explains, "One half of the city would have accused them of a whitewash and the other half of injuring...