Word: usher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peter D. Usher, a post-graduate student at the Harvard Observatory, said yesterday that the University should bring pressure to bear on alledged segregation at the Boyden Observatory in South Africa...
According to Usher, the Observatory continues to practice the following segregationist policies...
Harvard could insist that the Observatory hold public lectures to which both Negroes and whites are invited, and it could encourage qualified Negro students to do research at the observatory, Usher said. "We have a number of cards up our sleeve which we haven't used," he added...
...Usher may be right, Tillinghaft admitted, "it's an open question, but I don't think that we could play an active role in these matters." Tillinghaft said that although apartheid was a topic of debate at the council of Boyden affiliates, "we have done nothing to try to change South African social policy...
...issues which emerged from the conflicting opinions of Usher and Tillinghaft was what the possible reaction of the South African government might be if the Observatory made any attempt to desegregate. Usher said that "they probably wouldn't kick us out because the Observatory is a feather in the cap of the local government. the Observatory is a useful link with Europe and the United States...