Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rosovsky said the committee was not sure whether it would recommend a department in Afro-American studies, a degree-granting program, a Center, or some less formal structure within existing departments. The committee is expected to report to Dean Ford in December
...Afro-American Society was started at Andover last year; but it has two white officers out of four. The school requires that it not be segregated. Al Ingram, one of the founders, said it was started because of "the fantastic unawareness of people on this campus of the problems of Negroes in this society." There are between 35 and 40 blacks at Andover (out of 850). Half of Afro's members are white, and the purpose of the organization is not one of cultural identity...
Exeter has something called the Afro-Exonian Society. It has as members two whites (it is not allowed to be segregated) and most of the 40 blacks on campus. One student said, "In every dining hall there is a black table. Most prep school Negroes are white blacks who are mostly middle class. There's this guy in our admissions office who's really good and gets a lot of militants...
...Exeter Afro held a black mixer with black girls from prep schools in the area. The band was a soul group from Exeter called the Precisions. The Precisions are rumored on campus to be unpopular with the administration because there aren't any whites in the group...
SOCIAL GROUPS are organized vertically throughout all four classes at Exeter because, in contrast with Andover, their dormitories include students from each year. The vertical orientation strengthens groups like Afro and passes down habits like drugs to the younger classes. Drugs started two years earlier at Exeter (in 1965) and it was often seemed a more sophisticated school because everyone picks up the traits of those older than...