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Harvard thus has a direct investment in an organization which helps support and guide the racist policies of Mississippi. Today's meeting of the Corporation should recommend that the University withdraw its investment. The University should also begin a thorough examination of all its investments. What it true of Mississippi Power and Light may be true of other companies in which Harvard has holdings. To retain passively its Mississippi holdings would be a reckless denial of Harvard's responsibility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and Mississippi | 5/18/1964 | See Source »

KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE, by Shirley Ann Grau. Though miscegenation is the theme of this deceptively artless novel, it has no pejorative connotations for a large Louisiana clan until the heroine's racist husband makes a violent entry into politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: May 15, 1964 | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

...student committee, headed by Marshall Ganz '64-3, asked Pusey to discuss the statement at the meeting of the Harvard Corporation Monday. They requested that the University publicly "declare its opposition to racist activities supported by its investments" and "make a public commitment to use its full influence toward forcing a cessation of these activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Investment Nets Profit in Miss. | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

...such words dented Wallace's armor-plated skin, he didn't show it. In the only scheduled speech of his one-day campaign kickoff, Wallace told some 300 applauding Butler University students: "I'm not a racist. I'm against interracial marriages. I think the Negro race ought to stay pure and the white race stay pure. God intended for white people to stay white, Chinese to stay yellow and Negroes to stay black. All mankind is the handiwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: Who's Wallace? | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

Then the white-garbed clown gets into a harness himself, and, as he is hoisted aloft, the magician stabs him, the racist throws baseballs at him, and he is beaten by an irate sideshow barker. The cries of his death agony shatter the sound track. In a silence that follows, three empty harnesses dangle from their ropes, and the remorseful Magnus goes to put white makeup on his face. In the final scene an all-white figure is riding the donkey as the circus moves on. Is it the clown-or the puppeteer-or Everyman-or Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protestants: Christ in Grease Paint | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

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