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...Bruce Friedman '50 and Dan Pierce '49, arguing the affirmative for Harvard, contended that a civil rights act was necessary from a moral point of view. They asserted that in allowing discrimination on racial and religious grounds to exist, the United States left itself wide open for criticism of its form of democracy...
Graham was originally blackballed by the AEC's Security Office because of his past association with "Communist front" groups. He had been active in many such organizations, most of which fought racial discrimination in the South and plugged for academic freedom. About two dozen of these appeared on Attorney-General Tom Clark's long list of groups attracting Communist sympathizers. By the Security Office's standards, these associations made Graham a dangerous risk in work involving classified information. The AEC disagreed; Graham was anti-communist and the commission knew it. In reversing the Security Office it stated that Graham...
Medina, who looks like Movie Actor Adolphe Menjou, stopped rocking occasionally to advise the lawyers: "Start sawing wood." Deadpan, Judge Medina listened to a tearful outburst on racial discrimination from Counsel George Crockett. The next day when Crockett, a bespectacled Negro, said that he regretted weeping, Medina advised: "It is generally better for counsel to refrain from weeping in the courtroom . . . And I understand you promise not to do it again...
...Jacob Epstein's primeval Adam. In accordance with the Nationalist government's policy of apartheid (segregation), Indians and Negroes were barred from the exhibit. Roared big-fisted Sculptor Epstein in London: "The Adam was intended to represent the beginnings of all men . . . Under such Nazi principles of racial selectivity the subject of the statue himself would not be allowed to have a look...
...President Frank Porter Graham, discretion has rarely been the better part of valor. As far back as North Carolina's bloody Gastonia textile strike in 1929, History Professor Graham stuck his academic neck out to fight for a better deal for labor. Over the years, he fought against racial discrimination and restriction of academic freedom. He joined numberless "liberal" committees. Franklin Roosevelt often used him on commissions on social and economic problems...