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...fact that I would have said no had nothing to do with me being Black," Kilson says. "I don't think there was much problem there because most of the appointments we were offering were joint appointments between Afro-Am and another, more established department...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III says the problem was that Afro-Am was established to appease students...
...think the issue broke down this way: did we want the highest academic standards or did we want Afro-Am supporters to feel that were respected...
...while Afro-Am's poor record in its early years remains undisputed, there is some question as to whether the problem was a dearth of potential faculty or Harvard's lack of commitment of finding them...
Thomson Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson, who was the first Black to be tenured at Harvard and was a member of the Rosovsky committee, says that while he disagreed with the proposal for a full-scale department, the problems with Afro-Am had nothing to do with Black professors being unwilling to join...