Word: 1960s
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Although some of the radical tervor of student involvement has diminished since the 1960s, many say the current difficulty of filling the ranks of the Afro-American Studies department is largely a legacy of the University's inability to define clearly the program's role in the initial stages of its development...
...Afro-American Studies department reveals that it was born out of protest and activism, and that there are numerous parallels between the department's nearly-continuous troubles and its controversial roots. Whether by intention or by coincidence, recent protests urging increased faculty hiring echo the activist struggles of the 1960s...
...original concept of Afro-American Studies was rooted in the racial activism of the 1960s. The Association of African and Afro-American Students (AAAAS) was founded at Harvard in 1963, an organization dedicated to expanding the number of courses exploring the Black experience in America. By the fall of 1967, as the AAAAS became more activist-oriented, its primary objective became the establishment of an Afro-American Studies Department...
...Anytime you get five or six politicians together you need at least one reporter to keep an eye on them," said Range, who covered the Vietnam War and the Berlin student uprisings in the late 1960s...
Reading books outside those assigned in courses is one important way of identifying with their culture, some of them said, because of the dearth of classes addressing the experiences of Blacks since the 1960s Civil Rights movement. This is particularly important for Black women, whose role in this movement is often ignored, they said...