Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great deal of material by and about Afro-American people is presented in courses offered by members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Most of these courses treat the Afro-American experience in the context of more general aspects of American life: social, political and intellectual history, urban problems, race and ethnic group relations, to name just a few. Only one course, Social Sciences 5, and a few group tutorials for credit in Social Relations and Government, focus exclusively on the history and culture of Afro-Americans...
Nationwide, our separate niches are so much further apart, so much more mutually exclusive than at Harvard, that Harvard almost blurs into unity. What do I know of rural midwestern 20-year-olds? Of sons of established Mississippi landowners? Of black high school dropouts in urban ghettoes? Even of sons of lower middle class workers? I know virtually nothing of them. Most times I have nothing to do with them. But we share a crisis...
...sometimes on the surface, more often beneath it ?since Jews and Negroes first came in contact with each other in the cities of the North. This confrontation took place shortly after World War I, when South ern Negroes began to move out of the plantation fields and into urban life...
...Jews. But the Jewish willingness to help others also stems from the abiding generosity of the Hebrew religious tradition?though less well-off Jews sometimes feel far too threatened to share such altruistic sentiments. Jewish philanthropists were among the whites who helped Negro leaders establish the N.A.A.C.P. and the Urban League. The honor roll of CORE and S.N.C.C. martyrs includes the names of Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, two Northern Jews who were assassinated by whites in Mississippi on June...
Political Sociologist Leonard Fein, 34, is a Jewish intellectual who is associate director of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies. Black Educator Rhody McCoy, 46, is administrator of New York City's Ocean Hill-Brownsville experimental school district. Last week they met at the offices of TIME to discuss their concern about the deteriorating relationship between the ethnic communities to which they belong. Excerpts from their talk...