Word: africans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that I may have misled many people who heard me speak at the Soldiers' Field rally the afternoon of April 14. He was referring to that part of my statement where I stated that President Pusey refused me entry to the meeting as a representative of the Association of African and Afro-American Students at Harvard-Radcliffe. This statement is true. I was speaking to the point of an administrative response (at the highest level) to the efforts of an important, concerned, and legitimate student organization to participate in this advisory group. If this response of the President...
...underpinning of Afro's stance is the conclusion of Section II of the Rosovsky Report--the section dealing with Afro-American Studies at Harvard. (Needless to say, we consider African Studies to be an integral component of any Afro-American Studies program, and we exclude it from discussion only because our competence in the field is limited.) Concluding this chapter is a list of 17 recommendations concerned with the establishment and continuance of Afro-American Studies. These recommendations were accepted by the Faculty on February 11. The action of the standing Faculty Committee--their disregard for the terms...
...ROTC and expansion could not obtain significant additional student support, and that therefore a moderate-radical coalition based on the need to restructure the University should be formed. The weekend has shown, however, the student support for the radical demands is large and rapidly growing. The Association of African and Afro-American students, a substantial group of teaching fellows, and majorities of students in several Houses have supported essentially similar radical demands. If this support continues to grow, the fight against ROTC and expansion...
...REVOLUTIONS PER MONKEE (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The Monkees host a salute to the evolution of music from a beginning in African rhythms to today's psychedelic musical freakout. Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger and the Trinity are joined by Golden Oldies Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino and Little Richard among others...
According to a government statement, Ankrah received nearly $30,000 from foreign businessmen in Accra. As the official version put it, when Ankrah was confronted with the evidence by government officials, "he accepted full responsibility for the unfortunate incident and offered to resign honorably." By West African standards, Ankrah had always been a model of honesty; for that reason, despite his admitted indiscretion, he will probably not be punished...