Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line of argument put forth by the African and Afro-American students is strange to many. The argument is that the "association has not defined itself on racial terms by using the phrase 'African and Afro-American,' and that the group's members considered race unimportant to their membership clause." Opponents on the HCUA said the group was "racially discriminatory because in practice it would not admit whites...
...white race is one of many races. It is significant therefore that the HCUA did not say the Association would discriminate against Chinese or Arabs, but only against the white race. The spokesman for the Association, Mr. Armah, said, "The terms African and Afro-American cover many races including Arabs and persons of partial European descent." This means there is no discrimination on of color or creed: There is no discrimination on the basis of color or creed: Armah pointed out that Africans and Afro-Americans include "people who are more white than black"; the Association is not a religious...
...formation of an organization of African and Afro-American students at Harvard, reported in the Saturday, April 27, edition of your newspaper, is a capital idea. It is surely not racial discrimination' in any accurate meaning of the term if the proposed group excludes students of other racial origins from membership. If Harvard has a chapter of the Menorah Society and non-Catholics...
...purposes of the Association are outlined in the preamble to the constitution adopted yesterday. It states: "We, the students of African descent at Harvard and Radcliffe, in order to promote mutual understanding and friendship between African and Afro-American students at Harvard and Radcliffe; to provide ourselves a voice in the Harvard and Radcliffe community by means of a publication and by means of periodic statements; and to develop the leadership capable of effectively coping with the various problems of our peoples, do hereby establish the Harvard Association of African and Afro-American Students...
...approximately 35 students at the meeting approved the constitution after only an hour of debate. The document has been evolving, Atkins stressed, for the last three months. About 70 African and American Negro students have attended informal organizational meetings...