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...until several days ago, with the Chair Werner Sollor's spring-term ahead, the department was devoid scholars and leaders. With few tenured professors and no clear leadership, the Afro-Am departments 1990 looked much like that...
Once again, student activism, sans the radicalism of the late 1960s, took center stage. Nathan Glazer, a visiting professor at the time of the initial controversy, and currently an affiliate of the Afro-Am department, responds to the inevitable compa: "The Afro-Am issue of the '60s was much tenser. The political aspect is much milder this time. The department already exists...
...activism that administrators seem to resent so today acted as a crucial catalyst for change in the 1960s. "There was a role that Black militant processes played," Kilson said at a recent forum. "They put activist pressure on the American academic power structures to open up curriculum structures to Afro-American Studies...
...other progressive minded academics here in the late 1960s--like Professor Stuart Hughes and Professor Henry Rosovsky--recognized that activist pressures represented a major opportunity to open up the academic establishment to... Afro-American Studies...
Hall says he believes that the same factors that led to Afro-Am's troubled origins have not changed. "Inertia still prevails," Hall says. "These problems are complicated by the peculiar problems of the history department at Harvard, its inbred quality that self-selects from its own graduate school...