Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GSOC has drafted a platform supporting Afro's recent demands and urging withdrawal from Vietnam. The Committee also opposes "university support, direct and indirect...
...seemed purposeless and poorly timed. Above all, it was nearly all white. An SDS demand to pull all police out of the ghetto was severely criticized in the Crimson by Dr. Robert Coles, who asserted that the white radicals lacked any understanding of what was happening there. And meanwhile Afro came on strong and took nearly all the newsmaking campus activism away from them...
...Afro's call for the rally, scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. in front of Mem Church, said in part, "On April 24 black students of Boston University UMOJA sat-in in an administration building and closed it down for the whole day. Their grievances and demands were similar to Afro...
...boycott of classes called by Afro in early March, and planned for today as part of an international student strike against the war, is being "de-emphasized" according to Suzanne Lynn '71, Afro spokesman...
...strike was originally aimed against the war and racism. In light of recent events Afro is placing greater emphasis on racism. Today's rally and strike will be directed toward the manifestations of racism on the university level," Miss Lynn said...