Word: afro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday morning, more than 200 students, most of them members of Afro, successfully blocked workers attempting to enter the site. Later that day Tufts sought the restraining order that resulted in the police action yesterday...
Tufts University called in 200 police yesterday to prevent students from obstructing the construction of a dormitory. Both Tufts Afro and the administration have charged the construction company with racial discrimination in hiring...
...Afro is demanding that the Volpe Construction Company, contractors for the project, employ 20 per cent minority group workers. About five per cent of the present work force is black or Puerto Rican...
...prevent a violent confrontation between police and students about 200 members of Afro avoided the site yesterday. Later in the morning, Afro and about 500 white supporters voted to boycott classes for two days in support of Afro demands...
...Afro-American Society seized the building-which has been under construction since last August-with the demand that the administration halt construction and stop payment to the company while the suit is being litigated in the courts...