Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard should indeed stand in shame for the paucity of its African course offerings--as a concentrator in African History at Yale, however, I ask whether courses on Africa are really any more "relevant" to blacks than to whites, at least in America. The lesson of South Africa should show what it's really like when black and white can't speak to each other without distrust--I hope this is not happening at Harvard, for there are such real problems ahead that will demand cooperation between these Negroes and those whites who want to create the true multi-racial...
...committee, formed yesterday at a meeting called by the Association of African and Afro-American Students but open to all blacks, plans to speak with President Pusey, but no definite appointment has been set. They will discuss, among other things, a modified version of the four requests made by Afro last Tuesday...
Even if the South Africans do so, Swiss bankers last week insisted that they can challenge London's long supremacy in the market. Their customers siphoned off some $2 billion worth of gold from London between the mid-November devaluation of the pound and the mid-March closing of the gold pool, when the U.S. and six other countries stopped selling gold to the private market. That huge supply, equal to about two years' South African output, must remain the key source of bullion for free-gold trading for some time...
...HARVARD is indeed a microcosm of American society," the Association of African and Afro-American Students said in a statement Monday. And Afro itself has given the Harvard community some sense of the grief, anger, and heightened zeal for rapid reform which Martin Luther King's death has aroused in black Americans. What Afro has done and said in the last few days leaves whites with a mixture of sympathy and consternation...
...audit last fall chastized the History Department for its neglect of African History, and this hole in Harvard's curriculum cannot be left unplugged. Dean Ford conceded Wednesday that the University's African program has lagged behind regional studies of Latin America and the Middle East. This is an imbalance the Faculty must quickly correct...