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Speaking to more than 30 undergraduates in a Sever Hall lecture room, the Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowry, called on Black students to bring the "Black experience" to Harvard...
...Black students have an extraordinary responsibility to help teach white students who don't know what the Black experience means," said Lowry, who, more than 30 years ago, helped the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. found SCLC-a major civil rights organization. "The future is in your hands: continue the fight...
During the last month, Silber has characterized Massachusetts as a "welfare magnet" for minorities, charged Jews with racism, compared the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson's speaking style to that of Adolf Hitler's and suggested that alcoholism is a less serious problem than drug addiction...
...Rev. Jesse Jackson likes to be where the action is, and so he was in South Africa just in time for the release of Nelson Mandela. "It's a bold and courageous act," said Jackson, lauding State President F.W. de Klerk's announcement. De Klerk looked less kindly on Jackson's visit. Asked if the arrival of the American politician had any bearing on the timing of Mandela's release, De Klerk replied tersely, "His presence is totally irrelevant...
...Homosexuals want to associate their movement with our movement," said the Rev. E. W. Jackson, a Black leader who opposes the law. "The fact of the matter is that the only reason why Black people suffered discrimination has been the color of their skin-nothing whatsoever has to do with their moral behavior...