Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should we take the present-day state of Nigeria, where the polity is rent asunder by fratricidal warfare that was sparked by a grotesque genocidal act committed by one against another in this largest of all black societies? Or should we take as typical of the Black Experience the Afro-American community which was subjected to chattel slavery for over 200 years, and in the past century has been denied the elemental attributes of modern citizenship and humanity by devious, grotesque, and brutal forms of white racism...
...authorizing the groundwork for a degree-granting program in Afro-American studies last week, Dean Ford started the process of filling a shameful hole in the University's curriculum. Ford's support is crucial for any proposed academic change, and his responsiveness to the black students proposal may be a turning point in building a program for students of Afro-American culture here. And since innovations at Harvard have echoes in other parts of the country, the new program could give academic legitimacy to the study of black history and institutions, which is now neglected in almost all secondary schools...
...there is still work to be done here in translating the sentiment for an Afro-American studies into a workable program. The mechanics of setting up a degree committee should not prove difficult; the CEP earlier this year discussed a proposal by Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, to establish such committees for any student with a legitimate plan for concentration which fell outside the range of normal Harvard fields...
...critical problem which remains is creating courses to fill out the program. For Afro-American studies to exist at Harvard more than nominally, the Faculty must quickly recruit black scholars and make sure that departments do not continue to slight Africa in the group of courses they offer to undergraduates...
More than 200 students at Temple University picketed the inauguration of President Paul R. Anderson after Temple refused to grant tenure to a teacher who had protested grading systems by giving all his students As. At Northwestern, 60 members of the Afro-American Student Union took over the school's main business office, and 15 sympathetic white students occupied the Dean of Students' office to support demands for desegregated housing and more lenient grading for graduates of Negro high schools. Most decisive of all in handling protesters was the University of Denver, a Methodist-affiliated school. When...