Word: africana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great elephant," Leonardo da Vinci wrote, "has by nature qualities which rarely occur among men: namely probity, prudence, and the sense of justice and of religious observance." Later zoologists in Africa have noticed more human traits in Loxodonta africana -long childhoods and close nuclear families, high intelligence and a habit of wrecking their environment and destroying their own food supply. The suicide ground of the retreating herds of African elephants has been, for the past quarter-century, the Tsavo National Park in Kenya, a place ringed by political (and thus, from the elephants' point of view, irrational) boundaries. This...
Soon afterwards, DuBois accepted the invitation of President Kwane Nkrumah of Ghana to settle in his country. DuBois was working on an Encyclopedia Africana when he died on August 28, 1963. Simultaneously thousands were gathering for the march on Washington, the culmination of the struggle for civil rights which DuBois had proposed some 50 years before...
...James Turner is Director of the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. His remarks are adopted from a speech delivered at Harvard in December...
...People concerned about the Afro-American Studies program at Harvard will have to be diligent in their observation of the way the (Departmental) review gets structured," James Turner, director of the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell, said yesterday...
...Cornell, racial tension returned. Angry blacks looted and vandalized the new university store, started a bonfire of stolen goods, and roamed the campus, breaking windows and overturning cars. The rampage came in response to a $100,000 fire-apparently set by arsonists-that recently gutted the Africana Studies and Research Center. The fire destroyed the year-old center's library, and a number of manuscripts. It also reminded many that a cross burning last spring helped provoke the much publicized seizure of the student union by armed blacks. In sympathy last week, 150 white students staged...