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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...
...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...
Once again, student activism, sans the radicalism of the late 1960s, took center stage. Nathan Glazer, a visiting professor at the time of the initial controversy, and currently an affiliate of the Afro-Am department, responds to the inevitable compa: "The Afro-Am issue of the '60s was much tenser. The political aspect is much milder this time. The department already exists...
However, the student activism that administrators seem to resent so today acted as a crucial catalyst for change in the 1960s. "There was a role that Black militant processes played," Kilson said at a recent forum. "They put activist pressure on the American academic power structures to open up curriculum structures to Afro-American Studies...
...other progressive minded academics here in the late 1960s--like Professor Stuart Hughes and Professor Henry Rosovsky--recognized that activist pressures represented a major opportunity to open up the academic establishment to... Afro-American Studies...