Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bulk of the contents consists of a transcript of a four-way discussion that took place in Atlanta last year. Two of the participants were black, Lawrence C. Howard and Vincent Harding; and two were white, Myron B. Bloy, Jr., and an education reporter whose identity is withheld owing to his publisher's policy...
Harding feels that "The black student's insistence on change is an intimation to American as a whole of what it can expect.... Students are now testing the mind of the university." Howard summarizes the demands of black students on white campuses and concludes, "These are demands for very little.... The black community, in its efforts to get into the white mainstream, has never asked for enough." Harding responds, "On black campuses the questions are more fundamental.... The demand is to change the university in every way, in every area. The demands of black students on southern campuses are closer...
...little too easy in order to rejoice in it. It's a little too easy to celebrate a past that others went through at such a cost.... While we realize that slavery gave some people a love of freedom, it also gave many others a fear of white power. Slavery destroyed the spirit of many black people. You know, it was very ambiguous to have on Martin Luther King's tombstone the words 'Free at Last.' Is that what you have to go through as a black person to be free at last...
...intriguing exchange follows Howard's statement that "it is possible for a white man to be a Negro," that there is "a basic need for whites to want to be blacks, to desire a black consciousness." Harding finds this "irrelevant" for blacks and probably not "a useful expenditure of energy" for whites...
...students of Harvard University, and as Black students in a white environment, we join with all other members of the Harvard community in deploring and condemning acts if brutality perpetrated by the Administration against students in the University Hall demonstration. That certain students should feel that the only way to insure getting the Administration's attention is to occupy a building is less surprising than the Administration's response that the only way to negotiate with these students was through the good offices of our local storm troops...