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The last negroes at Harvard : the class of 1963 and the eighteen young men who changed Harvard forever / by Garrett, Kent,author.(CARDINAL)815142; Ellsworth, Jeanne,1951-author.(CARDINAL)813711;
"The untold story of the Harvard class of '63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action. In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited eighteen "Negro" boys as an experiment, an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one of these trailblazing Harvard grads, Kent Garrett, began to reconnect with his classmates and explore their vastly different backgrounds, lives, and what their time at Harvard meant. Garrett and his partner Jeanne Ellsworth recount how these young men broke new ground. By the time they were seniors, they would have demonstrated against injustice, had lunch with Malcolm X, experienced heartbreak and the racism of academia, and joined with their African national classmates to fight for the right to form an exclusive Black students' group. Part journey into personal history, part group portrait, and part narrative history of the civil rights movement, this is the remarkable story of brilliant, singular boys whose identities were changed at and by Harvard, and who, in turn, changed Harvard"--Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-299).
Subjects: Harvard University; Harvard University; African American college students; African Americans; Discrimination in higher education;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 12
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The last negroes at Harvard [sound recording] : the class of 1963 and the 18 young men who changed Harvard forever / by Garrett, Kent,author.(CARDINAL)815142; Ellsworth, Jeanne,1951-author.(CARDINAL)813711; Fernandez, Peter Jay,narrator.(CARDINAL)538436; Recorded Books, Inc.(CARDINAL)340508;
Narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez.The untold story of the Harvard class of '63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action. In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited eighteen 'Negro' boys as an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one of these trailblazing Harvard grads, Kent Garrett, began to reconnect with his classmates and explore their vastly different backgrounds, lives, and what their time at Harvard meant. Garrett and his partner Jeanne Ellsworth recount how these young men broke new ground. By the time they were seniors, they would have demonstrated against injustice, had lunch with Malcolm X, experienced heartbreak and the racism of academia, and joined with their African national classmates to fight for the right to form an exclusive Black students' group. Part journey into personal history, part group portrait, and part narrative history of the civil rights movement, this is the remarkable story of brilliant, singular boys whose identities were changed at and by Harvard, and who, in turn, changed Harvard.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Harvard University; Harvard University; African American college students; African Americans; Discrimination in higher education;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In glory's shadow : Shannon Faulkner, the Citadel, and a changing America / by Manegold, C. S.(Catherine S.),1955-(CARDINAL)655783;
Subjects: Faulkner, Shannon; Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina; Sex discrimination against women; Sex discrimination in higher education; Sex discrimination in higher education;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The campus color line : college presidents and the 1960s struggle for black freedom / by Cole, Eddie Rice,II,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-335) and index."This is a good movement" : black presidents and the dismantling of segregation -- "We simply cannot operate in slums" : the university and housing discrimination -- "Segregation is immoral" : race, university systems, and bureaucratic resistance -- "The university has become a pawn" : the fight for autonomy at a public university -- "The more violent and adamant" : anticipating and preventing white resistance -- "The northern outpost of Southern culture" : free speech and civil rights -- "A truly influential role" : college presidents develop affirmative action programs."This book unfolds the untold history of one of the United States' most notable civil rights crises from the perspective of academic leaders"--
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; College presidents; College integration; Racism in higher education; Discrimination in higher education; Higher education and state; Civil rights movements;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Place, not race : a new vision of opportunity in America / by Cashin, Sheryll.(CARDINAL)468245;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-153).White resentment, the declining use of race, and gridlock -- Place matters -- Optical diversity vs. real inclusion -- Place, not race, and other radical reforms -- Reconciliation."Race-based affirmative action had been declining as a factor in university admissions even before the recent spate of related cases arrived at the Supreme Court. Since Ward Connerly kickstarted a state-by-state political mobilization against affirmative action in the mid-1990s, the percentage of public four-year colleges that consider racial or ethnic status in admissions has fallen from 60 percent to 35 percent. Only 45 percent of private colleges still explicitly consider race, with elite schools more likely to do so, although they, too, have retreated. Law professor and civil rights activist Sheryll Cashin argues that affirmative action as currently practiced does little to help disadvantaged people. Sixty years since the historic decision, we're undoubtedly far from meeting the promise of Brown v. Board of Education, but Cashin offers a new framework for true inclusion for the millions of children who live separate and unequal lives. Setting aside race in use of place in diversity programming, she writes, will better amend the structural disadvantages endured by many children of color, while enhancing the possibility that we might one day move past the racial resentment that affirmative action engenders"--
Subjects: Affirmative action programs in education; Discrimination in education; Universities and colleges; Minorities; Educational equalization; Multicultural education; Cultural pluralism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The exceptions [sound recording] : Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science / by Zernike, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)501756; Mazur, Kathe,narrator.(CARDINAL)543054;
Read by Kathe Mazur.From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who broke the story, the inspiring account of the sixteen female scientists who forced MIT to publicly admit it had been discriminating against its female faculty for years, sparking a nationwide reckoning with the pervasive sexism in science.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Biographies.; Hopkins, Nancy (Nancy H.); Massachusetts Institute of Technology.; Sex discrimination in employment; Sex discrimination in science; Women in science; Women scientists; Sexism in education; Women; Women college teachers;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The exceptions [large print] : Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science / by Zernike, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)501756;
"In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against women on its faculty, forcing institutions across the country to confront a problem they had long ignored: the need for more women at the top levels of science. Written by the journalist who broke the story for The Boston Globe, The Exceptions is the untold story of how sixteen highly accomplished women on the MIT faculty came together to do the work that triggered the historic admission. The Exceptions centers on the life of Nancy Hopkins, a reluctant feminist who became the leader of the sixteen and a hero to two generations of women in science. Hired to prestigious universities at the dawn of affirmative action efforts in the 1970s, Dr. Hopkins and her peers embarked on their careers believing that discrimination against women was a thing of the past -- that science was, at last, a pure meritocracy. For years they explained away the discrimination they experienced as the exception, not the rule. Only when these few women came together after decades of underpayment and the denial of credit, advancement, and equal resources to do their work did they recognize the relentless pattern: women were often marginalized and minimized, especially as they grew older. Meanwhile, men of similar or lesser ability had their career paths paved and widened."--
Subjects: Large print books.; Biographies.; Hopkins, Nancy (Nancy H.); Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sex discrimination in higher education; Sexism in science; Sexism in higher education; Women college teachers; Women scientists; Sex discrimination in science; Sex discrimination against women; Sex discrimination in employment;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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We keep the dead close : a murder at Harvard and a half century of silence / by Cooper, Becky,author.(CARDINAL)837070;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-499).The story -- The girl -- The rumor -- The myth -- The echo -- The legacy -- The resolution."1969: the height of counterculture; the year Harvard would begin the tumultuous process of merging with sister school Radcliffe; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious graduate student in Harvard's Anthrlopology department, would be found bludgeoned to death in her apartment. Forty years later, Becky Cooper, a curious undergrad, will first hear whispers of the story: The body was nameless. A student had an affair with her professor, and he murdered her in the Peabody Museum. Though this rumor would prove false, it started an investigation that would consume Cooper's life for the next ten years. WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE is a narrative of mirrors, misogyny, and murder. It is at once a rumination on the violence and oppression that rules our revered institutions, a ghost story reflecting one young woman's past onto another's present, and a love story for a girl who was lost to history."--
Subjects: Biographies.; True crime stories.; Britton, Jane, 1945-1969.; Harvard University; Murder; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Murder victims; Women graduate students; Women in higher education; Sex discrimination in higher education;
Available copies: 48 / Total copies: 50
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We keep the dead close [sound recording] : a murder at Harvard and a half century of silence / by Cooper, Beckyauthornarrator(CARDINAL)837070;
Read by the author.Compact discs."1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment. Forty years later, Becky Cooper a curious undergrad, will hear the first whispers of the story. In the first telling the body was nameless. The story was this: a Harvard student had had an affair with her professor, and the professor had murdered her in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology because she'd threatened to talk about the affair. Though the rumor proves false, the story that unfolds, one that Cooper will follow for ten years, is even more complex: a tale of gender inequality in academia, a 'cowboy culture' among empowered male elites, the silencing effect of institutions, and our compulsion to rewrite the stories of female victims. WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE is a memoir of mirrors, misogyny, and murder. It is at once a rumination on the violence and oppression that rules our revered institutions, a ghost story reflecting one young woman's past onto another's present, and a love story for a girl who was lost to history"--
Subjects: Biographies.; True crime stories.; Audiobooks.; Britton, Jane Sanders, 1945-1969.; Harvard University; Murder; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Murder victims; Women graduate students; Women in higher education; Sex discrimination in higher education;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The exceptions : Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science / by Zernike, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)501756;
Includes bibliographical references (page 371-392) and index.An epiphany on Divinity Avenue -- The choice -- An immodest proposal -- At the feet of Harvard's great men -- Bungtown road -- "Women, please apply" -- The vow -- "We should distance all competitors" -- Our Millie -- The best home for a feminist -- Liberated lifestyles -- Kendall square -- "This slow and gentle robbery" -- "Fodder" -- Fun in middle age -- Three hundred square feet -- MIT Inc. -- Sixteen tenured women -- X and Y -- All for one or one for all -- "The greater part of the balance -- Epilogue -- The sixteen.In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against its most senior female scientists. It was a seismic cultural event - one that forced institutions across the nation to reckon with the bias faced by girls and women in STEM. This is the story of the women on MIT's faculty who started it all, centered on the life and career of their unlikely leader: Nancy Hopkins, a noted molecular geneticist and cancer researcher and protégée of James Watson, the codiscoverer of the structure of DNA.--
Subjects: Biographies.; Hopkins, Nancy (Nancy H.); Massachusetts Institute of Technology.; Sex discrimination in science; Women scientists; Women; Women college teachers; Sexism in education; Women in science; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 32 / Total copies: 37
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