Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ononeze M. Anochie '64, president of the Association of African and Afro-American Students, said last night that the AAAAS would not change its membership clause in its bid for official approval by the Faculty Committee on Student Activities...
...disputed clause opens membership to "African and Afro-American students" at Harvard and Radcliffe...
...following is the text of a letter sent by the Association of African and Afro-American Students to the Faculty Committee on Student Activities...
...executive committee of the proposed Harvard Association of African and Afro-American Students has directed me to present this short explanation of our petition for official recognition. The decision to seek University recognition was taken by the general membership of the Association after careful and prolonged debate. As outlined in the preamble to our constitution, our aims are to promote mutual understanding and friendship among ourselves; to provide for ourselves a voice in our campus community: and to develop the leadership capabilities of our members which are direly needed to cope effectively with the problems of our peoples. Our membership...
...Membership of the Association shall be open to African and Afro-American students currently enrolled at Harvard and Radcliffe. This clause, as we see it, is a purely inclusive statement. We cannot see how the Council had read it to exclude all other people. We had no need for the negative way of constituting our Association. We merely stated that African and Afro-American students may become members. We did not go further to say that any other person cannot. If the Council were trying to read our hearts, they should at least recognize that they may have read them...