Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Negro students from Berkeley to the University of Chicago to Harvard were attentive but not awestruck by Carmichael's appeal. Carmichael wasn't bringing most of his audiences any news. Afro-American and militant black-only groups had been in formation since 1963 when the Movement came North. James Foreman's statement last March to Harvard Afro-Americans -- "Your very presence in this American, educational institution is, by example, oppressing your black brothers and sisters . . . I'm fighting for your mind, baby, just like Whitey" -- antagonized, not inspired, Negroes who listened for a concrete program and heard only polemics...
...activism on Northern campuses showed a still present line of communication between SNCC and students. Yet Carmichael's misreading of this unrest and his resultant inability to enlist 24-hour soldiers clearly reveals the distance between SNCC and the Negro on campus. The Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students typifies the new character of Negro activism. The Negro in AAAAS is proudly intellectual and even prouder of having reached Harvard. He is not "unmindful of the masses of black people he has left behind," as SNCC puts it. But he will not be intimidated for his hard...
This is not to say that SNCC was not welcomed on campuses by Afro-Americans. If anything the reverse is true. He catalyzed thinking in those who had found it convenient not to think. He crystallized subtly felt prejudice into formulations of the causes of Negro poverty and disfranchisement and the character of the white political and economic system. But Carmichael and other SNCC people seldom ventured beyond the simple formulations. What they said was exciting, but did not inspire action...
...Harvard recently, Conyers made a prepared speech proposing a coalition of the nation's disadvantaged groups -- Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Mexican-Americans, and migrant farm laborers -- and called for aid from sympathetic intellectuals. But he spent most of his time meeting with students and Afro-American Students. And even to those Negroes at Harvard who have come -- quite understandably in the past few years -- to believe that politics is not the final solution, he came off well...
...Association of African and Afro-American Students at Harvard and Radcliffe has elected its officers for the coming year. They are Jeffrey P. Howard '69 of Winthrop House and Chicago, president; Elvin Montgomery Jr. '68 of Lowell House and New Orieans, La., vice-president; Robert L. Hall '69 of Leverett House and Tallahasse, Fla., secretary; Robert Scott'69 of Lowell House and Newport News, Va., Michael E. Watson '70 of Greenough Hall and St. Louis, communications officer; and George D. Houser '70 of Weld Hall and Rome, Ga., operations officer...