Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's Association of Afro and Afro-American students will hold a rally today for only black students in support of UMOJA--Boston University's association of black students...
...four proposals Afro presented to the University two weeks ago reflected the grief and anger that filled Negro Americans after Martin Luther King's death. While the proposals scored many glaring faults in Harvard's policy towards blacks, they were marked with an uncomfortably separatist tone...
...Committee on Houses has underestimated the intensity of student desires for representation," Jeffrey C. Alexander '69, HUC vice-president, said yesterday. "Their constant snubbing of student opinion--with parietals and Afro's current demands--shows they don't understand that students today are learning to respect their own legitimacy and their own power," he added...
...Many of you are trying to ignore what is going on here at Harvard, to concentrate on the South and Roxbury," Jeffrey P. Howard '69, president of the Association of African and Afro-American Students, told the crowd of over 200 that filled the colloquium room of Hilles last night...
...proposal to establish a program of African and Afro-American Studies would not be unfair to other Harvard students, nor would it be a separation of some sort. As it stands, Harvard is virtually a program of European and Euro-American Studies. This is unfair to us; it is a separation through exclusion and non-recognition. It is past time for Harvard to recognize the presence and significance of Africans in America--and to include us in its University...