Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April 9, 1969, more than 75 Harvard undergraduates stormed Universtity Hall in protest of college policy on ROTC, low-income housing in Cambridge, and Afro-American studies...
...activism at Harvard erupted into the most dramatic confrontation in Harvard's history, dividing the student body and faculty, and pitting both against the administration. On April 9, 1969, hundreds of students occupied University Hall, demanding the expulsion of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), the introduction of Afro-American studies courses and an end to the University's encroachment on Cambridge neighborhoods...
...accomplishments of the '69 spring of discontent are notable. The University no longer lends facilities and academic legitimacy to ROTC. Harvard now grants degrees in Afro-American studies. And a low-income tenement that Harvard intended to demolish still stands...
...shortcomings of the '69 spring are just as remarkable. Afro-Am remains inadequately supported. The University is still under the strict control of the secretive and undemocratic Harvard Corporation, which is virtually unaccountable to students, faculty and alumni...
...Afro-American Studies department now exists at Harvard, thanks to strike activism. But the department has been inadequately supported by the administration, and its professors have often been denied tenure. And in a recent New York Times article ("Harvard Accused of Lag on Minority Hiring," March 5), a panel of faculty members reported a poor record on hiring of women and minority faculty. According to Lawrence Watson, co-chair of the Association of Black Faculty and Administrators at Harvard, "If Harvard as the premier institution that trains the best and brightest is a place that is absent of the best...