Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Holding the Line. After successfully capturing the campus buildings, the demonstrators-led by the far-left Students for a Democratic Society and the all-Negro Student Afro-American Society-seemed far more interested in a bloody confrontation with the ad ministration than in any meaningful negotiations. They demanded a complete surrender on all points at issue, including amnesty for all participants in the rebellion. Kirk refused, on the ground that this would mean a complete abdication of all disciplinary authority...
...fund will be used to finance underprivileged students--preferably Afro-Americans--in areas not usually covered by Harvard financial aid grants, committee-member Peter F. Hagerty '68 said yesterday. A student needing special tutoring before coming to Harvard, for example, would be eligible for the fund's help, he explained...
Cooks met here with several student supporters of the campaign, including leaders of the Association of African and Afro-American Students. One local organizer for the campaign, Steven J. Kelman '70, said yesterday that supporters would set up tables in the Houses and at Radcliffe Wednesday urging students to participate...
Closely related to the student protests is the growing movement for black student power. From Yale to San Francisco State, Negro activists and some white supporters have sought to make the university become more active in uplift drives in the slum community, to introduce more courses in Afro-American history, and to recruit more Negro students, professors and administrators. In most cases, the administration has quickly acceded to the demands. Last week the trustees of California's 18 state colleges voted to increase, from 2% to 4% of the entering class, the number of Negro, Mexican-American and other...
Among reform proposals were immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, opposition to the draft, and support of certain of Afro's demand...