Fraternity (2012) (edit title/settings)

Serotta_tigrrrl edited the books cited by this book of Fraternity Thursday, March 29, 2012.

• Added The Known World
• Added Lost in the City
• Added All Aunt Hagar's Children
• Added The Other America: Poverty in the United States   <OTHER AMER> <Paperback>

Serotta_tigrrrl edited the page settings of Fraternity Thursday, March 29, 2012.

• Unhid these sections: books cited by this book

Serotta_tigrrrl edited the memorable quotes of Fraternity Thursday, March 29, 2012.

• Added a quotation: “... Thomas was struggling to figure out where he stood on issues of social justice. While he still saw himself as an essentially left-wing thinker devoted to addressing social wrongs--when books by black conservatives came his way, he immediately threw them in the trash--he had grown tired of the standard-issue radical rhetoric. As he later said, "I just fundamentally disagreed with the in-your-face approach to everything." He didn't buy into the conspiracy theories about the war, and he disliked the constant rage that the other BSU members expressed. He was especially critical of the assumption that every brother had to think and act the same way. he found it all too simplistic and immature.”
• Added a quotation: “Holy Cross's role in educating men like Berrigan and The Other America author Michael Harrington would three years later prompt Time to label the college "the cradle of the Catholic Left."”

Serotta_tigrrrl edited the memorable quotes of Fraternity Saturday, March 24, 2012.

• Added a quotation: “President Lyndon B. Johnson had responded to the national anguish over King's death by signing the civil Rights Act of 1968 on April 11 ... Brooks would keep pushing colleagues and students to understand the role they could play in helping to fulfill king's dream by bringing more black students onto campus and by helping them to flourish. ... He hoped that some good could come of King's death.”

Serotta_tigrrrl edited the memorable quotes of Fraternity Saturday, March 24, 2012.

• Added a quotation: “Of the twenty black men who arrived at Holy Cross in the fall of 1968--nineteen freshmen and Thomas, who had transferred to the school as a sophomore--only a dozen would make it to graduation.”
• Added a quotation: “Memories of college can come to take on a golden aura or can be cast aside in disdain once they're at odds with a person's new life script.”
• Added a quotation: “For many black Americans, Vietnam had become a civil rights issue. According to figures cited by King, who had come out against the war in 1967, the United States had spent $322,000 for each enemy killed in Vietnam and only $53 on each person it had classified as poor in its war on poverty.”
• Added a quotation: “Brooks was just five years older than King ... Some found it hard to tell at times whether Brooks was left-wing or conservative, as he could persuasively articulate both sides of an argument. When asked where on the political spectrum he might put himself, Brooks laughed and said he liked any side that supports individual thought. ... In an era of black and white, Brooks was unafraid to embrace views that were gray. .... ... Understanding the complexities of different views rarely seemed to diminish his conviction in holding to his own.”
• Added a quotation: “<Brooks'> stance on civil rights wasn't just moral but practical: There was an ambitious generation of black men growing up in America, and the college was missing out on a chance to help shape it. holy Cross risked becoming less relevant by admitting so few black students. No college could pride itself on developing the nation's future leaders when it largely ignored the potential of an entire group of talented young men, and most of those men would probably never think of attending holy Cross unless people like him made the effort to recruit them.”
• Added a quotation: “Even though the college's first valedictorian had been the son of a slave, the campus had built its reputation largely on educating sons of the Irish elite.”
• Added a quotation: “Brooks pledged that anyone he picked would meet the faculty's standards and would have the right character for the college. in return he wanted the president to allow him to make decisions on the spot. Surprisingly, Swords agreed.”

Shelfari edited the settings of Fraternity Thursday, February 23, 2012.

• Added a setting: Worcester
• Added a setting: Washington
• Added a setting: Vietnam
• Added a setting: Philadelphia
• Added a setting: Holy Cross
• Added a setting: New York
• Added a setting: Boston
• Added a setting: Georgia
• Added a setting: America
• Added a setting: Savannah
• Added a setting: United States
• Added a setting: Massachusetts
• Added a setting: Detroit
• Added a setting: Queens
• Added a setting: Manhattan
• Added a setting: Northeast
• Added a setting: D.c.
• Added a setting: New Jersey
• Added a setting: Black

Shelfari edited the characters of Fraternity Thursday, February 23, 2012.

• Added a character: Ted Wells
• Added a character: Stan Grayson
• Added a character: Father Brooks
• Added a character: Donohue
• Added a character: Tom Boisture
• Added a character: Gil Hardy
• Added a character: Gallagher
• Added a character: Whitton
• Added a character: Jaffe Dickerson
• Added a character: Art Martin
• Added a character: De Shay
• Added a character: Kimball
• Added a character: Nina Mitchell
• Added a character: Joe Wilson
• Added a character: Eldridge Cleaver
• Added a character: Ed Jones
• Added a character: Raymond Swords
• Added a character: Gordon Davis
• Added a character: Ma Wells
• Added a character: Coleman

Amester edited the memorable quotes of Fraternity Friday, February 3, 2012.

• Added a quotation: “When Clarence Thomas once saw a black girl walking with a white man on campus...he did an exaggerated double take and joked that the revolution might be going too far.”

Amester edited the memorable quotes of Fraternity Friday, February 3, 2012.

• Added a quotation: “Brooks committed more than eighty thousand dollars of the college's money to cover tuition, books, and residence for the nine recruits from Philadelphia for their four years at Holy Cross. He hadn't cleared the figure with President Swords, but he felt he could deal with any fallout from that later.”

Amester edited the characters of Fraternity Friday, February 3, 2012.

• Added a character: John Brooks: A Catholic Reverend at Holy Cross.
• marked the description of John Brooks as not a spoiler
• Added a character: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.