Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revised proposals the Negotiating Committee submitted last week reflected a new optimism about cooperation. Black leaders still stood by their legitimate complaints about the lack of courses relevant to blacks. Harvard must improve its grossly inadequate coverage of African studies. There is also a clear need for more black Faculty members, and the committee has left that demand unchanged...
...Just as the Southern Baptist Convention, with more than 11 million members, is the U.S.'s largest Protestant denomination, most Negro Christians are also Baptists. Negro Baptist churches have a combined membership of more than 8,000,000. The next largest Negro churches are: African Methodist Episcopal, 1,166,301 members; African Methodist Episcopal Zion, 1,100,000; Christian Methodist Episcopal...
First-time passengers on Nairobi-based East African Airways are almost always noticeably nervous. And with reason. Emblazoned with the national colors (green, yellow, red, white, black and blue) of its three partners (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), E.A.A. planes look like a wild trip even when they are on the ground. To make matters worse, travelers in Africa are usually aware that the line's 30,000-mile network covers some of the world's roughest terrain, including bush runways plagued with mud and giant anthills that can rise up between flights. Yet for all its drawbacks, E.A.A...
...regret very deeply that the question of Harvard's African course offerings has been cast in racial terms-black Harvard vs. white Harvard. For the problem clearly transcends this issue and brings to light a more crucial one: whether Harvard can afford simply to ignore the study of close to fifty developing countries, an entire continent in its most important period of change...
...petition also calls for the establishment of an African-American Research Center comparable to the East Asian, Russian, and Middle Eeastern Research Centers now existing, a point not included in the original statement...