Title Blacks at Harvard : a Documentary History of African-American Experience At Harvard and Radcliffe

Published New York : NYU Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (590 pages) Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION: BLACKS AND THE RACE QUESTION AT HARVARD; THE BLACK PRESENCE AT HARVARD: AN OVERVIEW; PHILLIS WHEATLEY; To The University of Cambridge, in New-England; A FORENSIC DISPUTE ON THE LEGALITY OF ENSLAVING THE AFRICANS, HELD AT THE PUBLIC COMMENCEMENT IN CAMBRIDGE, NEW-ENGLAND (BOSTON, 1773); MARTIN R. DELANY AND THE HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL; Medical Intelligence; Petition; Pride, Prejudice, and Politics; The Slave Factory; RICHARD T. GREENER: THE FIRST BLACK HARVARD COLLEGE GRADUATE; For Good Government & Urban Politics The White ProblemSpeech at the Harvard Club of New York; CLEMENT G. MORGAN; Harvard's Negro Orator; Class Day Oration; W.E.B. DU BOIS; A Negro Student at Harvard at the End of the Nineteenth Century; W. MONROE TROTTER; W. Monroe Trotter at Harvard; Negro Delegate Tells of His Work; William Monroe Trotter; BOOKER T. WASHINGTON; Last Words; Principal Washington at Harvard University MARCH 12, 1907; Extracts from an Address at Harvard University FEBRUARY 4, 1914; WILLIAM H. FERRIS; Douglass as an Orator; LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL; The Place of Religion in the Education of the Negro; To William James AI AIN LOCKETwo Letters from Harvard; Youth Speaks; Sterling Brown: The New Negro Folk-Poet; The Myth of the New Negro; EDWARD SMYTH JONES; Harvard Square; EVA B. DYKES; Conclusion to The Negro in English Romantic Thought or A Study of Sympathy for the Oppressed; Preface to Readings from Negro Authors; CAROLINE BOND DAY; Selections from A Study of Some Negro-White Families in the United States; The Pink Hat; Race Crossings in the United States; MARCUS GARVEY; A Note on Marcus Garvey at Harvard; THE HARVARD DORMITORY CRISIS (1921-23); The New Negro on Campus; Colored Students at Harvard Attacks Harvard on Negro QuestionNegro Graduate Protests; Voices from Harvard's Own Negroes; Opinion; Charles W. Chesnutt to Roscoe Conkling Bruce; Charles W. Chesnutt and Harvard; No Racial Discrimination at Harvard; Negroes in the Freshman Halls; MARITA O. BONNER; On Being Young--A Woman--And Colored; STERLING A. BROWN; I Visit Wren's Nest; Southern Road; COUNTÉE CULLEN; The Shroud of Color; Excerpt from The Medea of Euripides: A New Version; RALPH BUNCHE; The Virtue of Color-Blindness; WILLIAM H. HASTIE; The Black Mystique Pitfall; RAYFORD W. LOGAN; The Confessions of an Unwilling Nordic LEADBELLYKenneth B. Murdock to John A. Lomax; Negro Who Sung Way Out of Southern Prisons Wins Two Harvard Audiences; JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN; A Life of Learning; MURIEL SNOWDEN; Right to Participate; ELIZABETH FITZGERALD HOWARD; Miss Radcliffe; Three Generations of a Black Radcliffe and Harvard Family; HAROLD R. SCOTT; Harvard and the Performing Arts: "How Long, O Lord ...?"; WILLIAM MELVIN KELLEY; Black Power; My Next to Last Hit by "C. C. Johnson"; THE AFRICAN AND AFRO-AMERICAN SOCIETY CONTROVERSY; The Mail May 9, 1963; On the Other Hand May 14, 1963; MALCOLM X Summary The history of blacks at Harvard mirrors, for better or for worse, the history of blacks in the United States. Harvard, too, has been indelibly scarred by slavery, exclusion, segregation, and other forms of racist oppression. At the same time, the nation's oldest university has also, at various times, stimulated, supported, or allowed itself to be influenced by the various reform movements that have dramatically changed the nature of race relations across the nation. The story of blacks at Harvard is thus inspiring but painful, instructive but ambiguous--a paradoxical episode in the most vexing Notes The Leverett House Forum of March 18, 1964 Print version record Subject Harvard University -- History -- Sources. Radcliffe College -- History -- Sources SUBJECT Harvard University fast Radcliffe College fast Subject African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- History -- Sources SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. African Americans -- Education (Higher) Race relations SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- Sources Subject Massachusetts United States Genre/Form History Sources Form Electronic book Author Titcomb, Caldwell Underwood, Thomas A ISBN 9780814788974 0814788971

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