This is a profoundly moving article that resonates deeply with me. I was shocked by black-white student separatism at Northwestern in 1972. This essay confirms what I witnessed and tried to understand while writing a magazine feature on this topic in my senior year. Not a single professor including my advisor—the associate dean of the Medill School of Journalism was ready to address it. That is still the case today and it is a major reason why our politics and policies have failed, including DEI, which is being banned across the country.
Thanks fro reading this so closely, Rachel. It is not a subject discussed much but this was a moment lost. I wonder if Martin Luther King had not been murdered whether the conversations about separatism would have been different.
Those were the times. "We've got to get ourselves together" with the emphasis on selves ... something white students could not participate in, was the prevailing attitude.
This is a profoundly moving article that resonates deeply with me. I was shocked by black-white student separatism at Northwestern in 1972. This essay confirms what I witnessed and tried to understand while writing a magazine feature on this topic in my senior year. Not a single professor including my advisor—the associate dean of the Medill School of Journalism was ready to address it. That is still the case today and it is a major reason why our politics and policies have failed, including DEI, which is being banned across the country.
Thanks fro reading this so closely, Rachel. It is not a subject discussed much but this was a moment lost. I wonder if Martin Luther King had not been murdered whether the conversations about separatism would have been different.
In Antioch’s forward thinking, it’s surprising they initiated a ‘Black Only’ residence.
Those were the times. "We've got to get ourselves together" with the emphasis on selves ... something white students could not participate in, was the prevailing attitude.