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Negotiations broke down once the full faculty got involved in the spring of 1969. The morning after police cleared Vietnam protesters out of University Hall, the faculty released an outline of a three-year program entitled Afro-American Studies Combined with One Allied Field...
According to Wilson, the program had not been cleared with the ad hoc committee and Black students were insulted by the requirement of combining Afro-Am with another concentration. Black students complained of being "sold out" by the administration...
Eventually, amid angry protests by Black students, the "Rosovsky Committee" drafted a new plan, calling for the formation of an Afro-American Studies department...
...Wilson returned to Harvard as a post-doctoral fellow at the Kennedy School of Government. While he was here, Wilson says he was dismayed at the state of the Afro-Am department he had worked so to hard to create...
...really weird going back to Harvard seeing how screwed up the African-American Studies Department was," Wilson says. "It was very disappointing to come see the Afro-Am department in a very shaky state...