Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, Hamilton was thinking primarily of Harvard's Association of African and Afro-American Students (Afro). But this Spring, immediately after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., anguished and angry black students formed an Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students which quickly won major political concessions from the University...
FRIENDS AND ENEMIES, by Naomi Mitchison (John Day; $3.95). When Petrus' schoolteacher brother is arrested for speaking against apartheid, his mother sends him for safety to his relatives in the Bechuanaland countryside. It is only 60 miles away, but the young South African boy finds many things different-most important the definitions of freedom and decency...
...About 15 African courses will be available next fall. The normal rules covering cross-registration will not apply so students will not need the approval of their department unless they want to count the course for concentration. Students in any rank group list, not just I, II, and III, will be able to enroll at courses at other colleges...
These changes apply only to African studies and only next year (Ford calls them "strictly stop-gap"). A Faculty Committee on Afro-American Studies was created about a month ago, and when its recommendations for a permanent Harvard program of Afro-American studies are formed and adopted the cross-registration will probably be phased...
...cross-registration will be reciprocal, but only within the field of African Studies. Ford said that B.U., M.I.T., and Brandeis students probably would not be able to get into Harvard's new Gen Ed course on "The Afro-American Experience," which is likely to be overapplied by Harvard and Radcliffe students...