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Harvard, 1968: The College is embroiled in a crisis Students, sparked by the assassination of Martin Luther King and a growing Black nationalist movement, are protesting for the creation of an Afro American Studies Department and greater recognition of undergraduate diversity. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has no tenured Black faculty members...
Twenty-five years later. Harvard, 1993: A burgeoning Afro-American Studies concentration attracts top faculty members from other universities. But the Faculty has only three more Black full professors than it did in 1969--and despite several past hirings, presently the same number of tenured Black women: zero...
Like any period of radical change, 1968 and 1969 did not mark an easy time for professors or administrators. But lasting transformations resulted, beginning with the Faculty's first Black tenured professor in 1969. And 1969's Rosovsky Report advised the creation of the desired Afro-American studies program...
Black faculty members are clustered in only a few fields: two in government, two in sociology, two joint appointments in English and Afro-American studies, one in Afro-American studies and one joint appointment in anthropology and Afro-American studies...
Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah left Duke for Harvard in 1991. Since his arrival, he and Afro-American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. have taken great strides in rebuilding their department...