Word: ethnicities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local donations), the charrette got under way in a downtown warehouse and office building. Bill Riddick, director of development at North Carolina's Shaw University and a veteran of charrettes in Raleigh and Indianapolis, was hired to help manage and guide the early discussions. People from every ethnic and economic stratum participated. They divided into loosely structured committees such as health, police-youth relations and education. At night they regrouped to discuss their progress in an "arena" session...
...send the navy home and disband it once you've crossed the English Channel. You hold it in readiness until it's needed again. So I think we should, as other ethnic groups, recognize that the boycott is an appropriate tool at certain points, that the demonstrations are appropriate, that confrontations of all types, short of violence, are appropriate...
...opposed to it on philosophical grounds because the kind of world we live in-its pluralism, diversity, and closeness-demands an end to ethnic and cultural incest, an excuse for the insecure who don't feel they can make it in a multi-society...
...person deserves anything, whether it be favor or disfavor, simply because of racial or ethnic background. A person is deserving of special consideration only because of his individual and particular needs and accomplishments. To point out, as you have, that there are black people is to admit and emphasize that black people are in some way different. If they are to be recognized as different, then they are open targets for discrimination-and, most likely, in a negative way. Let's integrate, not separate...
...because I want to teach in junior or community colleges where a Harvard Ph.D. could create an additional barrier between students and myself. I am leaving because Professor May thinks America was imperialist for only a three-year period and because Professor Handlin thinks black people are only another ethnic group. I am leaving because "preserving the amenities" at Harvard means denying any chance for change. Spare us from the "amenities" of any world...