Word: afro-am
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According to Hall, Afro-Am search committee members were advised by other faculty members to try a "sociological approach" to hiring Black professors...
...many students were outraged because the report diluted their biggest demand: the call for an Afro-Am department. The report called only for the establishment of a committee on Afro-Am, but students held out for a formal department...
Several days after SDS members took over University Hall, the Faculty acceded to student demands. Although only one Black student participated in the takeover, the threat of another student uprising motivated the Faculty to give Afro-Am department status...
...think the faculty gave a damn in 1969 about the creation of an Afro-Am department," Daniels says...
...Harvard and throughout the nation, Blacks stood on the threshold of full integration. Having won gains in the political and social areas, Black students at Harvard were crusading to clinch the last gain, to have an Afro-Am program of their own. Former students say this struggle for academic recognition parallels Black people's national quest for complete integration...