After Watts ended and the Black Power movementbegan, McDougall says, "most of the [whites in themovement] were still very supportive but wereworried that they were not wanted, that theircontributions were not needed."
If whites were feeling partially excluded fromthe movement at Harvard, Blacks had to face muchdeeper exclusion still institutionalized at theschool.
The University was slow to change a variety ofdiscriminatory policies. This year's 25thAnniversary Report shows fewer than a dozenBlack faces. Women were not allowed to study inLamont Library until 1966, and then only becausethe University was refurbishing Hilles.
Jews were not allowed to hold religiousservices in Memorial Church until the fall of1966. And the Spee Club admitted the first Blackstudent to a final club only in 1966.
Still, McDougall says, "the assumption" amongcivil rights workers at the College "was that itwas a good place...At that time, our criticism ofsociety never turned on Harvard. After I left, thecritical eye of the movement turned inward."
"Harvard was not a racist place," Oliphantrecalls, "but it didn't open itself quickly. In ahalting way, it was moving forward."
"We would have said 25 years ago that