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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAlbert Einstein teaching at Lincoln, the United State's first Historical Black University, 1946.
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Albert Einstein teaching at Lincoln, the United State's first Historical Black University, 1946. (Original Post)
demmiblue
Sep 2018
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Never seen that one before. Thanks for posting!
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)2. all of them in suits
except Einstein.
No girls, I see.
mucifer
(23,547 posts)4. Correction, no women
Cicada
(4,533 posts)3. Thurgood Marshall attended Lincoln University
mucifer
(23,547 posts)5. I found a really interesting article about Albert Einstein Civil Rights Activism:
In 1946, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist traveled to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the alma mater of Langston Hughes and Thurgood Marshall and the first school in America to grant college degrees to blacks. At Lincoln, Einstein gave a speech in which he called racism a disease of white people, and added, I do not intend to be quiet about it. He also received an honorary degree and gave a lecture on relativity to Lincoln students.
The reason Einsteins visit to Lincoln is not better known is that it was virtually ignored by the mainstream press, which regularly covered Einsteins speeches and activities. (Only the black press gave extensive coverage to the event.) Nor is there mention of the Lincoln visit in any of the major Einstein biographies or archives.
In fact, many significant details are missing from the numerous studies of Einsteins life and work, most of them having to do with Einsteins opposition to racism and his relationships with African Americans.
The reason Einsteins visit to Lincoln is not better known is that it was virtually ignored by the mainstream press, which regularly covered Einsteins speeches and activities. (Only the black press gave extensive coverage to the event.) Nor is there mention of the Lincoln visit in any of the major Einstein biographies or archives.
In fact, many significant details are missing from the numerous studies of Einsteins life and work, most of them having to do with Einsteins opposition to racism and his relationships with African Americans.
More in the article:
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/04/albert-einstein-civil-rights-activist/
I did not know about all of this.
demmiblue
(36,855 posts)6. Very interesting, thanks for the link!
"There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to men of white skins. Even among these there are prejudices of which I as a Jew am clearly conscious; but they are unimportant in comparison with the attitude of the "Whites" toward their fellow-citizens of darker complexion, particularly toward Negroes. The more I feel an American, the more this situation pains me. I can escape the feeling of complicity in it only by speaking out
Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition."
Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition."
From the National Geographic TV series/Docudrama, Genius: