Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most distressing to read in the CRIMSON October 17th the explanation of my friend Professor Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House, as to why six Negro students were granted equal rights and authority with Faculty on the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies. Professor Stewart rightly remarks that this decision of the Faculty last April (a decision which ignored the guidelines of the Rosovsky Report) was made under a "peculiar set of circumstances." But he is mistaken as to the substance of those "peculiar circumstances...
...called "certain expertise," as Paofessor Stewart puts it, of some black students in the field of Afro-American Studies but the open political threats of some militant extremists in the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Students Association that determined the Faculty's decision to give six Negro students full faculty status on the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies...
...daresay that neither Professor Stewart nor any other member of the Harvard Faculty who voted to this decision can adduce evidence to show that any of the Negro students on the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies has acquired the qualifications which would warrant calling them "experts" or "scholars" in the field of Afro-American Studies. None of these students has, to my knowledge, a B.A., M.A., or Ph.D. degree; none has published a scholarly paper, article or essay in the social sciences and the humanities; none has held a teaching position in Afro-American Studies in an institution...
Rosovsky is now chairman of the Economics Department. He was succeeded as chairman of the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies by Richard A. Musgrave, professor of Economics...
...article, Rosovsky calls the Faculty's vote of April 22 an "action [taken] in the face of threats" from "a new and militant leadership" in Afro...