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...back to 1969, When a Black student groupused veiled promises of riot to push a balkyFaculty into creating Afro-American Studies, therehas been a tradition of strong-armed activism inthe BSA. During the deliberations over AfroAm, onestudent sat outside the Faculty room with aconcealed meat cleaver during the deliberationsover Afro-Am; few believe the department wouldhave been created without the threats...
Like most people, Carter defines her time atHarvard by the things she has chosen to do here.She looks back happily on her time at the Co-op,in the Afro-Am department, working at Schlesingerand participating in the tutoring program inDorchester. "The Co-op made it possible to stay atHarvard until the end," she says. It most closeslyresembled the warm nurturing environment in whichshe had grown...
According to Wilson, the program had not been cleared with the ad hoc committee and Black students were insulted by the requirement of combining Afro-Am with another concentration. Black students complained of being "sold out" by the administration...
...Wilson returned to Harvard as a post-doctoral fellow at the Kennedy School of Government. While he was here, Wilson says he was dismayed at the state of the Afro-Am department he had worked so to hard to create...
...really weird going back to Harvard seeing how screwed up the African-American Studies Department was," Wilson says. "It was very disappointing to come see the Afro-Am department in a very shaky state...