Hairston Note to Ruszkiewicz with Attached Letter to Woodward
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Title
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Hairston Note to Ruszkiewicz with Attached Letter to Woodward
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Type
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Correspondence
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Creator
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Maxine Hairston
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Date
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1 April 1992
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Description
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Handwritten note from Hairston to Ruszkiewicz introducing an attached article by Yale professor Woodward which has since been removed from the file. She also includes the letter she wrote Woodward, which congratulates him on speaking out against political correctness in the university. In the redacted letter, she recounts the E 306 controversy and notes that she, as someone interested in women's issues and as a political liberal, complicated the PC narrative that opposition to Writing About Difference came only from extreme conservatives. She ends her letter by calling for more to stand up and speak out against political correctness.
