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...same sime, the Students Afro-American Society (SAS) was protesting a university proposal to build a gymnasium in a public park in the predominantly Black community of Morningside Heights...
...University administrators didn't think there were enough qualified Faculty members to establish a high-caliber department of Afro-American studies...
Administrators say there was an element of appeasement in the foundation of the department. In his 1991 book The University: An Owner's Manual, Rosovsky likened the process, by which Afro-Am became a department to an "academic Munich"--a reference to the 1938 conference where the allied diplomats tried to appease Hitler...
Ford and Rosovsky both cite the Afro-American Studies Department's unimpressive early history as proof that their initial suspicions about a lack of Black scholars were right...
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the current chair of the Afro-American Studies, says his department did not really begin to emerge as a leading academic entity until a few years...