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...beginning of sophomore year, asthe Thursdayfests raged and she was coming toterms with Fairfield, her introspection about raceand identity only intensified. Smith decided toconcentrate in both English and Afro-Americanstudies; a seminar with Werner Sollors brought heracross a" threshold into--I don't want to sayblackness, but maybe commercial blackness,social blackness, confirmed in literature. I did alot of reading I hadn't done but should have doneby then...
Several days after SDS members took over University Hall, the Faculty acceded to student demands. Although only one Black student participated in the takeover, the threat of another student uprising motivated the Faculty to give Afro-Am department status...
...think the faculty gave a damn in 1969 about the cartoon of an Afro-Am department," Daniels says...
Alvin L. Bragg Jr. '95, president of the BSA, says the University must hire more Black faculty in areas other than Afro-American Studies...
...protesters of 1969--in their opposition to the Vietnam War, their demands for severance of the University's ties with the Reserve Officers Training Corps and their call for the establishment of an Afro-American studies department--defined a historic, activist era at Harvard...