Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tell you. The people gladdened and the people saddened by April's strike are still glad and still sad, only more so. The bust and the strike were lasting cathartic experiences for many--for H. Stuart Hughes as well as for Betsy. When the Faculty convened to debate Afro Studies and consider Alan Heimert's strongly worded resolution, Professor Hughes, two-thirds of the way through his term as chairman of the History Department, rose to defend the sanctity of Faculty control over such matters as curriculum and appointment policy. This was the same H. Stuart Hughes...
Harvard's first experiment in Afro American studies--Soc Sci 5, a general education course on "the Afro American Experience" -- met strong criticism from black students in the course and from other Afro members. After one black freshman had argued with the course's instructor, Frank Freidel, during a lecture, Afro said it would prepare a formal critique of the course, including alternate reading lists and lecture suggestions. Freidel said that the course had been put together on short notice and was still in a flexible stage...
Martin Kilson, one of the designers of Soc Sci 5, entered the dispute over the new course. Kilson said that black students' criticism of Soc Sci 5 was "racially bigoted and disgustingly anti-intellectual." Afro members said that Kilson had "misinterpreted" their complaints; "we weren't objecting per se to the fact that white professors teach the course," one black student said...
...came to the debate dressed as a Klansman and argued in favor of the proposition that "Black Power is ruining America." Although the debate directors and the student himself said that their intent was harmless, black students objected immediately. A statement from a black freshman and the president of Afro said that the debate topic was comparable to "having a debate on the extermination of Jews--and bringing in one participant dressed as a Nazi...
Winthrop House said that its annual spring Arts Festival would be run in association with Afro and would feature black artists. Tentative guest artists included James Baldwin, Leroi Jones, Marian Anderson, and others...