Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hair, a soft voice and prominent dimples when he smiles. Last week he was talking about the possibilities for social and political change in his native South Africa. He said he thought any change would necessarily mean "a major redistribution of wealth" from the ruling white elite to the African masses...
...they are true. Du Plessis is one of three American representatives of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), one of the largest multi-racial organizations in South Africa which actively opposes the apartheid policies of the resume of Hendrik Verwoerd. About ten NUSAS members have been "detained" by the government in recent months under a law which enables police to hold citizens almost indefinitely without filing formal criminal charges. Last month the South African Security Police raided NUSAS head-quarters in Capetown, removing eight documents and recording several names. Also in recent months various government ministers have publicly...
...Faculty Committee on Student Activities has given careful thought to your letter of October 31. In it you requested formal University recognition of the Association of African and Afro-American Students; you report that the Association members are unwilling to withdraw or to change the membership clause of the proposed constitution, which has been in question; and you argue that at this point in history it is essential to form an African and American Negro student association, with membership determined by a "dogma of anti-racist racism." You feel a duty to require the University to take a stand...
...have told you in earlier correspondence and in meetings, we are favorably impressed by the stated purposes of your Association, and we would welcome the development at Harvard of a student organization which would represent well the interests, and concerns, and the urgent social and economic problems of the African nations and of American Negroes. We would understand that such an organization, to be representative and effective, would have to be predominantly of African and American Negro membership. Further, if your constitution allowed for the possibility of eventual election to membership of students of other races, we would not intervene...
...response to our request for clarification. And, although there are still traces of ambiguity in details of your phrasing, the main thrust of the Association's purpose seems to us now to be made quite clear. The stated purpose is to have a student organization which will be exclusively African and American Negro. Your letter calls the policy by the name, "anti-racist racism." It goes on to justify the purpose at length in terms of acute present-day social needs. And you call upon Harvard to recognize that the special needs of the time require the College to abandon...