Word: afro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard-Radcliffe Afro presented the Administration with two statements of demands concerning the University's hiring policies towards minority group workers. Afro set 9 a. m. on December 2 as the deadline for compliance by Harvard...
...Afro statements said that Harvard "has long allowed racism in its rankest and most insidious forms to systematically and ruthlessly prevent black men from working in its employ...
...demands attacked alleged racism in the painter's trade and the other called for changes in construction hiring, which Afro said is characterized by "insidious patterns of discrimination...
...Harvard can act to change wage differentials if necessary, etc. I was there at the conference. But I wish to point out right here and now that I was there as an interested individual. I participated in discussion neither as a member of SDS, nor as a member of Afro, but as Diorita Fletcher, black woman, class of '71. My statements to John Butler were made in that light. I resent your none-too-subtle efforts to exploit my presence for SDS or newspaper mileage...
hiring a black recommended by Afro to serve as clerk of the site...