L to R: President Thomas Fulham, Allan Rohan Crite, Collection Librarian Edmund Hamann, and English Professor Dr. Edward Clark. Crite received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at commencement in 1979.
The Boston Busing Debate was an episode of the television show “ A Left and a Right” which originally aired on Boston’s Channel 5 and was co-hosted two broadcast personalities, the conservative Avi Nelson and the outspoken “Dean of Talk Radio” Jerry…
The letter from the Massachusetts Black Legislative Caucus discusses the attack on Theodore Landsmark and other violent incidents in Boston, and is signed by representatives Mary H. Goode, Royal Bolling Jr., Doris Bunte, Robert Fortes, Raymond…
Three weeks before he was jailed for leading peaceful protesters in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. King addressed the Ford Hall Forum in Boston on March 24 1963. His address, "The Future of Desegregation," coincided with the centennial of the Emancipation…