Word: africans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freshmen who want to learn more about African history can now join an informal non-credit freshman seminar...
Subject to Suppression. Pushkin's strange shape and nature were the products of a bizarre lineage. On his mother's side, he was great-grandson of an African slave originally presented to Czar Peter the Great. His father's family, as he put it, was "the detritus of a decrepit aristocracy" that went back 600 years into feudal times. Born in 1799 in Moscow, Pushkin was left largely on his own by indifferent parents. As a boy he was impressed by French liter ature, especially the savage wit of Voltaire, and absorbed Russian folklore from his peasant...
...technical staff, which was composed of experts on African problems, found that the Biafran's good supply will decline sharply in two months. "Their diet has always been dangerously low on proteins, but in April the calorie level itself will drop very sharply," Mayer said...
Fred L. Glimp, dean of Harvard College, met yesterday with a committee of black students to work out fund-raising plans for the black cultural and recreational center suggested by the Rosovsky Report on African and Afro-American studies...
Brazil is ostensibly a Catholic country, but it is not really Catholic. African rites were brought by slaves, and the lower-class people who prac tice spiritism have adopted Catholic saints and some Catholic rituals. They use the Catholic icons to represent their African gods. Carnaval ends up as a time when the lower class uses the status of the rich white man's religion mixed with African gods-the ones the poor believe in. The celebration thus pulls the country together...