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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whiteside, speaking in the first of a series of seminars sponsored by the Harvard Eisenhower Young Republican Club, cited an 1850 Massachusetts case in which the Supreme Court ruled for continued school segregation. He also mentioned the Plessy vs. Ferguson case (Louisiana) of 1896, concerning a mulatto who refused to ride in a separate Negro railroad car. The Supreme Court upheld public segregation laws in that case...
However, Mr. Whiteside observed, there have been great changes in American society since then, making such a turn against precedents desirable. Also, the fourteenth amendment now makes the Bill of Rights applicable on the state level. In 1954, in the Brown vs. Topeka School Board case, the Court ruled that segregation "materially impedes education" and in order to belie its precedent legislation gave testimony from sociologists which backed the Court's decision...
Quite possibly a Harvard education does not substantially affect the opinions and certainties of any of these three groups on the matter of segregation. An ardent supporter of school segregation will read Brown vs Board of Education in Government 1 and emerge more convinced than ever of the unsoundness of the decision...
...club --The Harvard New Jazz Society--that tried to supply both money and enthusiasm. It reached a membership total of one hundred and fifty, split between jazz-players and jazz-lovers; and it sponsored the Friday nights at WHRB, as well as several forums on jazz and a "Hot vs. Cool" battle. It also scheduled concerts--all well attended--which brought Brubeck, Konitz, and the Modern Jazz Quarter to Cambridge. The group unfortunately disbanded when the original organizers left Harvard, and to date has not been revived...
...Negos vs. Putney...