Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee, formed yesterday at a meeting called by the Association of African and Afro-American Students but open to all blacks, plans to speak with President Pusey, but no definite appointment has been set. They will discuss, among other things, a modified version of the four requests made by Afro last Tuesday...
President Pusey had previously said he would not act on Afro's four requests--a chair for a black professor, more courses relevant to blacks, more lower level black faculty members, and more black students. Afro called yesterday's meeting in response to Pusey's statement...
...that meeting, attended by about 60 students, two-thirds of whom belong to Afro, ten representatives were chosen for what will soon become a 15-man committee to deal with the administration. Eight of the ten selected are Afro members, including Jeffrey P. Howard '69, Afro President. The remaining five places will be filled, probably with Cliffies and nonmembers of Afro, at a meeting later this week, since many blacks did not show up at yesterday's meeting...
President Nathan M. Pusey's remark that he "regrets and feels sad about black student's dissatisfaction with Harvard," is touching indeed. University officials have nonetheless decided not to act on any of Afro's four requests: 1) Black professors; 2) more courses relevant to Blacks; 3)more lower level Black Faculty members, and; 4) the admission of Black students proportionate to our percentage of the population as a whole...
...naked racism which Afro sees in the white response to what it terms "the legitimate and totally justified rebellion of our black brothers and sisters now occurring across the country," is, at best, dangerously simplistic analysis. As Robert Coles pointed out Monday, the troops sent into burning ghettos go to protect black property as well as white. Afro is justified too in its anger at whites, who abuse his memory with substanceless odes to his non-violent tactics. But for Afro to put its energies into developing a fighting spirit and charting the logistics of racial warfare would be useless...