Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thanks to the initiative of the Afro-American Society, we've become convinced that the Volpe Company has not been living up to its obligations in hiring minority-group workers," director of Public Relations William H. Wells said yesterday...
More than 200 students, most of them members of the Afro-American Society, blocked workers attempting to enter the site yesterday morning. The students were protesting the allegedly discrimina-tory hiring practices of the Volpe Construction Company, a firm owned by the family of U. S. Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe...
...Tufts administration has supported Afro's demands for 20 per cent employment of minority-group members in recent negotiations with the construction firm. At present, only four of the 108-man work force are black, and only two are Puerto Ricans...
Paul Spickard 72 an Afro-American Studies concentrator said he thought "there are approximately 25 or 30 people in the department," but that as many as 150 have attended lectures in Afro-American Studies 95, a colloquium required of all concentrators. Guinier is coordinator of the colloquium which meets once a week in large groups to hear guest lecturers and once a week in small seminars. Meetings with guest speakers are open to non-concentrators, Nwafor said...
Last Spring, 23 sophomores indicated a desire to concentrate in Afro-American Studies, but over the summer this figure grew to 70. Nwafor said that because of the lack of resources in the department, an effort was made to limit the number of concentrators...