Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very interested in the Crimson article (Jan. 8) on the new Pentacostal association founded last year by a small group of Harvard Black students--the Seymour Society. Christian activity has always been central to the life of Afro-Americans and has offered Blacks one of their most viable connections with American society and culture, as well as providing Blacks their first experience with managing soverign institutions. But Christian activity has also offered Blacks and whites one of the few viable means for bridging the differences that have divided them in our racist civilization. From the early endeavors to educate Afro...
...unfortunate, I feel, that the new Seymour Society leaders display no awareness of this important cross-ethnic or cross-racial function that has been a crucial part of Afro-American Christianity. It is, I think, a feature of the Afro-American Christian tradition that the new Seymour Soceity, if it really wants to do something innovative, might consider rehabilitating...
...Faculty committee members also recruited Fernandez for some security guard work. "I'm five-foot ten, but look a lot taller with the Afro, and I look like I lift weights," he says. So the committee placed Fernandez outside the doors of Holyoke Center, barring the way when SDS attempted to storm the building...
During the hour-long talk and subsequent question-and-answer session. which were sponsored by the Harvard Black Law Student Association, the Harvard Business School Afro-American Union, and Aetna Life and Casualty, Ashe urged Blacks to work with insurance companies that are helping to desegregate Black communities...
...recognize Asian Americans as a minority group with a history of discrimination until 1976-77. Four years later in his 1980 Commencement Address on minorities at Harvard, President Bok failed once to mention Asian Americans. Asian Americans, however, have been active in the anti-Bakke, divestiture, and Afro-American Studies movements and have played a leading role in working for a Third World Center...