European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Black history at Harvard today s crossword byed Reavis staff writer Hen Harvard University planned to til the curtains to celebrate 11� 350in anniversary last year it nearly forgot an important chapter of its own history and the history of Black people in America. Werner Sollors Protessor of american literature and chairman of the Depar Lenl of afro american studies a Harvard said his department managed to publish us anthology varieties of Black experience at Harvard just in Lime Lor he Celebration. The anthology co edited by Sollors Thomas a. Underwood and . Is evidence thai Harvard that much heralded bastion or american liberalism has passed through tortuous times from 1639 till today in coping with the presence of Blacks on its Campus. The founding of he College in Cambridge. Mass., preceded new England s entry into lha Alave Trade which started Oul when capt. William Pierce imported a few slaves on his ship desire out of Salem in t 338. The fas developing traffic in negroes matted " he Golden Harvest brought wealth and Leisure Lor the cultural and intellectual leaders in the area anthology author Emory West writes. Harvard reaped its share of the Golden Harvest directly in the form of slave labor and indirectly through financial support by Massachusetts residents and English merchants. After the revolution the Servile status of lha slave was changed to that of scout to refer to those who served students As vendors janitors Laboratory custodians and wallers in memorial Hall where the students ate from 1774 to 1b24. During the 17lh and Tsoh centuries the names of numerous Harvard men including University presidents increase Mather 1685-1701 and Benjamin Wadswoth 1725-1737were among he leading slave owners in the state. Writer Titcombe describes How the University had its outspoken abolitionists such As Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and James Russell Lowed. Divinity school professor Henry Ware or. Founded the Cambridge Anli slavery society in 1834 and latin professor Charles Beck put in a trap door on his Cambridge Werner Sollon of Harvard s afro american studio Deal residence to hide fugitive slaves on their Way North to Canada on the underground Railroad. Bui hat vast s most famous 19th-Century scientist Louis Agassi had a Tow opinion of the Black race which was echoed by science Deans Henry Eustice Little above beasts in 1b33 and Nathaniel Shaler unfit for an Independent place in a civilized slave in 1862, the 1650 charter under which Harvard still operates mentioned the education of the English and Indian youth of this and a Tew indians were enrolled Between 1653 and 1715, one Caleb graduated in 1665. There was no mention of Blacks and none was admitted until the Middle of the 19lh Century the first Black to be accepted to the College was Beverly g. Williams in 1b47. Williams was reportedly a Brilliant Lall nist but he died of tuberculosis a Lew weeks before the academic year began Al age 18. The first Blacks to study at Harvard Wera medical students. In 1650, Martin Zelany and two other Blacks were admitted Delany who wrote several books Aboul the Black situation in America is recognized As the first Black nationalist. The presence of the Blacks in the school split the Sudan is into two Camps and the faculty voted that the Rio would have to leave a1 the end of the term. The firs Blacks to receive Harvard degrees Wera Edwin . Howard Al the medical school George l. Ruffin at the Law school and Robert t. Freeman Al the dental school. The latter two were the first Blacks in the country to receive University degrees. Sollors said As the number of Black students grew problems increased. President James Russell Lowe 1922-23who was also unhappy Wilh the increasing number of jewish students barred Black students from sleeping on Campus which was compulsory for Whites. This paradoxical proclamation was a Concession to the complaints by White southerners but had to be modified considerably to allow the students to choose where they wanted to live Sollors said. There have been Battles for Equality and recognition lost and won at All Levels to the present. There More than 2,500 Blacks now attending the school the list of Black Harvard graduates who have distinguished themselves and garnered titles and High office in All walks of life is too Long to quote but impressive in anniversary publications. The anthology tells the stories behind the Glitz. 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