Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their resignations came one week after the first Black woman ever to win tenure at Smith, Professor of Afro-American Studies Johnella E. Butler, announced that she would leave the school because she was disturbed by the school's attitude toward minorities...
...wanted to attend a nation-wide conference because I was curious about other students' opinions," said Walker, an Afro-American Studies concentrator...
Historians here and elsewhere say that theAmerican wing of the history department has beenwracked by internal divisions which have preventedthe department from hiring any senior levelAmericanists since Du Bois Professor of Historyand of Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins wasbrought from Columbia seven years...
...with chutzpah," she says. Last week Princeton announced that Toni Morrison, the much honored black female novelist (Song of Solomon, Beloved), was leaving the State University of New York at Albany for Princeton, where all hands insist that she will be no ornament but fully active in writing classes, Afro-American studies and the rest of university life...
...funnel to business school begins at the college level, and undergraduate institutions aren't accepting as many Blacks," said the president of the Afro-American Student Union at Harvard Business School, Arnold J. Lewis, a second-year graduate student...