Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HARVARD is indeed a microcosm of American society," the Association of African and Afro-American Students said in a statement Monday. And Afro itself has given the Harvard community some sense of the grief, anger, and heightened zeal for rapid reform which Martin Luther King's death has aroused in black Americans. What Afro has done and said in the last few days leaves whites with a mixture of sympathy and consternation...
...first three of Afro's four proposals for Harvard criticize real faults here. An endowed chair for a black professor is not the only mechanism for getting more Negroes on the Faculty, but the University must hire a qualified black social scientist to fill a tenured position. A black man could have the background and experience to teach blacks (and whites) here what no presently tenured Faculty member can. And the University should recruit and train black graduate students, thereby increasing the number of young black Faculty members. Expressions of eager intent are no longer sufficient...
...AFRO'S final request, that Harvard "admit a number of Black students proportionate to our percentage of the population as a whole" is indefensible. Ethnic quotas are rightly repugnant to the University; it would make no sense to insist that Jews, Catholics, Italian Americans, and American Indians all be admitted in proportion to their percentage of the national population, and Negro admissions should not be reduced to this numbers game either. Harvard admission policies are the least legitimate target here for Afro's criticism. Harvard has aggressively sought Negro students for years (with recruiting help from Afro), and Dr. Chase...
...Afro had asked for an endowed chair for a black professor, more courses relevant to blacks, more lower level black Faculty members, and admissions of blacks in proportion to their percentage of the population as a whole...
None of the three officials seemed to think white-black relations at Harvard have reached the proportions of an emergency crisis. Glimp, who spoke with three Afro leaders on Tuesday, said the "fellows expressed grief, strain, and anger, all of which are understandable...