Word: africanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cocktail and dinner parties report that, while the first encounter is a head-snapper, repeated exposure dulls the senses. After a few summers of bareness, the most enticing woman a few seasons hence may well turn out to be the one cloaked head to foot in a shapeless North African djellaba...
...torment in song and preaching. Although barred from joining white churches, Negroes were visited by white evangelists, who instilled in them the fervor and faith of oldtime religion.* The Negro accepted the doctrines but brought to the spirit of worship an intensity arising from repression. Hymns reflected both the African origin of the Negro and the agony of his existence. Sermons emphasized the vision of beatitude in the promised land; the congregation-condemned to submission and silence elsewhere-was free here to give public vent to its yearnings in cries of "Amen." Says John Lewis of Atlanta, former chairman...
...Many of you are trying to ignore what is going on here at Harvard, to concentrate on the South and Roxbury," Jeffrey P. Howard '69, president of the Association of African and Afro-American Students, told the crowd of over 200 that filled the colloquium room of Hilles last night...
Still contentious in his gently astringent way, McGill revels in outflanking questioners who hesitate in pressing the Southerner too hard on race. Should blacks in the South as well as in the North be exposed to African history? "The white Southerner needs courses in African History and the achievement of the Negro in America just as much as the Negro does." And he chides some of the less militant civil rights organizations for becoming too middle class, losing their appeal for younger blacks...
...proposal to establish a program of African and Afro-American Studies would not be unfair to other Harvard students, nor would it be a separation of some sort. As it stands, Harvard is virtually a program of European and Euro-American Studies. This is unfair to us; it is a separation through exclusion and non-recognition. It is past time for Harvard to recognize the presence and significance of Africans in America--and to include us in its University...