Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Afro-American Cultural Center Committee is organizing a fund drive to purchase the building at 20 Sacramento Street, the proposed site of the Afro-American Cultural Center...
Eric L. Jones '70, president of the Center, said yesterday that the committee hopes to purchase the Harvard-owned building by the end of this school year. "We're organizing a private fund drive, contacting people interested in black culture and Afro-American studies, to raise the funds we need to buy the building," Jones said...
Article 17 of the Report said, "A central point of the Committee's work should be the establishment of a Center or Institute for Afro-American Studies. The purpose of this institution would be to provide intellectual leadership, a physical, locale, and sufficient material resources for consideration of all aspects of the Afro-American experience...
...short, the "certain expertise" that Professor Stewart attributes to the six Negro students on the governing body of the Department of Afro-American Studies ?s, to put it bluntly, non-existent! It is, therefore, rather disingenuous of those members of the Faculty who supported the decision to place students on the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies to continue rationalizing their action in terms of the "certain expertise" of these students...
Instead, they should face up to the fact that their decision was determined, at least in part (a large part, I think) by the political threats emanating from the extremist wing of the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Students Association. This is not, of course, the first time that Harvard has made a major academic decision in face of political pressures of one sort or another. But this is what happened in regard to the composition of the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies, and I wish that those responsbile for this decision (insofar as they voted...