Professor wins speech ruling
NATIONAL
NKW V( )Kk (AH — A pro
fessor's right to free speech
was violated when City Col
lege of New York dismissed
him from a < hairmanship
because ha made a speet h
that was widely critic ized as racist, a )ucigt* ruiiHi
Tuesday
Jeffries' lawsuit sought SZ5 million ana rein
statement as chairman of black studios The iurv
will now dei ide who spis ificailv violated Jeffries
rights and consider damages The judge will
dei ide later if Jeffries gets his chairmanship bai k
Outside of the court. Jeffries thanked his sup
porters.
"All we wanted was our day in court he said
But the decision dot's not
necessarily mean that Ij-onard
Jeffries will get the job bar k
Jeffries. 5fi, lost Jus chair
manship of black studies, a
position he had nearly 2d
years, less than a year after
delivering the July 1991 ipeecb
in Albany He has remained on
the school's faculty
In the speech, Jeffries said
that Jews and the Mafia had
‘All we wanted was
our day in court. The
issue has for us
always been a
constitutional one.’
- Professor Leonard Jeffries,
free speech was violated
I he issue has lor us always
b*H>n a constitutional out'
Attorney General Robert
Abrams, whose office handled
the case for the State si bool, said
the ruling "puts handcuffs on
the abilitv of ( UNV administra
tors to properly manage their
campuses."
City University spokesman |av
Hershenson promised an appenl
t he indue said he tits ided the
conspired to belmi*? blacks in
the movies, and that Jews had helped finance the
slave trade.
The jury was shown a video of the 75-minute
speech in whit h Jeffries also said sc hool books fail
to accurately describe Africa’s place in world his
tory.
Jeffries ret ailed as a youngster watt lung mot ies
"where the African people were completely deni
grated."
In accordance with U S. Supreme Court guide
lines. l) S. District Judge Kenneth Conboy dm ided
the free .speech issue himself, and the jury decided
that Jeffries' constitutional right to due process
was violated.
free spetn li issue after weighing
Jeffries' right to speak freely on matters of publii
t om ern rontpanui with the rights of a school to
"promote tfte efftt tent v of the pnblit services it
performs through its employees
The judge noted that the subjer t of the s|ms« h
reform of tfu* nation s educational t urriculum
"was part of a dobatt! that has broad and entretne
ly significant implication* for American society
"While it is quite understandable that some nut
consider certain statements in Professor leffries
speech to be offensive, these statements do not
dilute the high degree of public com ern that is at
the core of the speei h." he said
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