Apartheid. USA 1988

January 15, 1988:

A second major racial incident has taken place at the campus at Amherst of the University of Massachusetts in 18 months. A group of minority students has occupied a University building and vowed to remain there until their demands have been met. The protest follows a serious racial incident in which two black students, who were at the time with a white woman were attacked by 5 white students. The two blacks and their companion have filed civil rights and criminal assault complaints against the five. Two of the white students have already been suspended from university housing. ‘Many schools’, wrote the Times, ‘have been

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grappling with the unsettling notion that their campuses are tainted with the racist attitudes of society at large.’^203.

203. The New York Times, from a report by Allan R Gold