Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newly formed group of Harvard alumni yesterday called on the University to reaffirm its commitment to the Afro-American Studies Department complaining that the department is currently "reported to be in great trouble a department in name only...
...full-page advertisement that first ran in yesterday's Crimson, the group also demanded immediate "good faith negotiations" with Ephriam Isaac, a former associate professor of Afro-American Studies, who is suing the University for discrimination in its decision not to grant him tenure...
...Alumni Committee to Support Afro-American Studies was started last fall to counteract what it considers a lack of University support for the department. Dayna L. Cunnigham '81, one of the organizers of the committee, said yesterday. She noted that the group already has more than 30 members and is growing rapidly. Because of a policy of "deliberate neglect and abuse by the College" the department will require" hard work by students and alumni to maintain it," she added...
...They are saying Afro-American history begins with the slave trade: they are saying Afro-American history is a slave history, and Afro-Americans are a slave people...
...things I's like to do." The funding crunch has compounded other problems as well: Counter has spent much of his limited time on the road, trying to raise funds from alumni and outside groups. In addition, his attempts to seek aid from the Black Students Association (BSA), the Afro-American Cultural Center and other minority groups have alienated many of the students whose support is vital to the Foundation's success. As Gaye Williams '83, president of BSA, says: "In every other university money flows from the administration to student groups. Harvard seems to want...