Word: traynham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like most corporations, he said. Harvard "claims to be paralyzed." Calling this a fatalistic attitude, Traynham warned that "those with power had better learn how to use that power" or else suffer the consequences of "the inevitable explosion...
Although unsure of Harvard's exact financial position ("I have no knowledge of the University fiscal assets"), Traynham thinks Harvard might be able to join with other large stockholders in major companies to help set the company's path. He mentioned last spring's controversy between Kodak and Saul Alinsky as an example of a situation where socially-conscious stockholders could play a socially constructive role...
...Traynham has conflicting views about his personal role in the struggle. Although he left Harvard, "because I preferred to work in a community where there was a possibility of effecting change," he shied away from a leadership role in Roxbury's self-policing activities in the tense days following King's death. "I was just interested in finding out what was going on," he said, "so I wandered the streets. I was on the outside...
...Traynham's views are very much a metamorphosis of Martin Luther King's own philosophy of non-violent social change. King was trying at the time of his death to expand the scope of his demonstrations. Traynham too would urge both whites and blacks to focus their attention away from individual acts of courage and sacrifice to the soliciting, instead, of corporate contributions of resources and social consciousness...
Perhaps this closeness between the two men accounts for the eloquence of Traynham's final tribute to Dr. King...