Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of Black alumni and seniors formally urged seniors yesterday to join a recently formed alumni committee to support Afro-American Studies. The Black group also called on the Afro-Am Department to tenure a former assistant professor of Afro-American studies...
...think Afro-American Studies is one of the last institutions speaking to Black needs on Harvard's campus," said Ricardo Guthrie '80, one of the group's organizers, in a press conference in front of John Harvard's statue in the Yard. Minority students have a large stake in seeing that the struggling department survives, Guthrie said...
...Afro-Am Department this year attracted no freshman concentrators, a problem mentioned yesterday by alumni organizer Aaron Estes '80 when he argued that the department is currently threatened with extinction. The department is not "put out as a viable option" to freshmen, Estes said...
...alumni group is urging the University to begin to bargain "in good faith" with Ephraim Isaac, a former assistant professor of Afro-American studies, who has charged the University with racial discrimination for denying him tenure...
...Williamson, but the doctor-to-be always got the work done. During freshman and sophomore years she also played viola for the Harvard/Radcliffe orchestra and violin for the Kuumba Singers. Williamson adds she also was politically active in protests against divestiture in South Africa, and in favor of the Afro-American Studies department, a Third World Center, and women's studies. The political climate at Harvard has calmed down significantly in the last two years, she says, enabling her to focus on her studies and her hoop...