Word: mckissick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rally's main speaker, Floyd McKissick, former head of CORE, praised black students for the takeovers of University buildings and condemned Harvard for its "racism...
...glad to be here at Harvard, the citadel of education, higher learning, and racism," McKissick told the crowd of 350 blacks and a few whites...
Addressing the students who participated in the recent takeovers, McKissick said, "What you did was a method of communication"- the only possible method to confront what he called the University's stubborn and racist stand...
...McKissick saluted the blacks at Harvard for being proud of their race and reminded them, "you cannot be given freedom; the black man must liberate himself, he must liberate his mind...
...McKissick was followed by Rev. Virgil Wood of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who drew enthusiastic applause when he said, "We are here to say to Harvard that she is a liar, a damned liar...