{"value"=>"<p>Guinier's Speeches give a fuller sense of his thinking and the many controversial issues which confronted him as an uncompromising critic of institutional racism in the university and as an advocate for a black perspective in African-American history. Arranged chronologically, this body of papers addresses such issues as student takeovers of school buildings, the \"urban problem\" which many people equated as a \"black problem\", black identity and self-image, racism, trade-unions and culture. Materials in the files include correspondence, notes and transcripts of prepared speeches, transcriptions of recordings, announcements, printed matter and some research materials. Correspondence and printed matter relating to the Public Affairs Lecture Bureau and the Freedomways Management Bureau, which booked many of Guinier's speaking engagements, form a separate file.</p> <p>Guinier traveled extensively during his chairmanship of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department, and addressed audiences at black churches and community centers, Harvard alumni associations, local Urban League branches, the National Black Assembly (1975) and black studies conferences in New York, Boston, Atlanta, Duke and Cornell universities, Vassar and Sarah Lawrence colleges, the Charles Drew Medical Center, public schools in the Cambridge area and various venues within Harvard. Some of his major speeches include; \"Black Education, a Major Challenge to Universities\" (1973), \"The Politics of Blacks in Higher Education\" delivered at a Minority Planning Conference in 1974, \"Plantation Politics: the DuBois Institute at Harvard\" and \"Blacks at Harvard\" (1974), \"Bok's Blacks\" and \"Black Studies, Training for Leadership\" (1975), and \"Racism, Foundation of Anti-Sovietism\". (1981)</p>"}