Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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February 11: The Faculty voted unanimously to approve the Rosovsky committee's recommendations on Afro-American studies at Harvard. On two specific votes, the Faculty accepted plans for setting up a degree program in Afro-American Studies and creating a committee to revise African studies. The Faculty then voted to approve "in principle" all the other Rosovsky recommendations--including plans for a black student center, a fellowship program for black graduate students, and a student-Faculty "search" committee that would try to find Faculty members for the Afro-American Studies department by next fall. Most of Rosovsky's proposals...
February 19: Dean Ford named the six members of the "search committee" in Afro-American Studies. Three of the committee's members were students selected by a black student committee. As stipulated in the Rosovsky report the committee's job was to find ten Faculty members for the Afro-American studies department by next Fall...
President Pusey named the seven members of the new Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies that would oversee the development of Harvard's Afro-American Studies program. Dean Ford agreed to serve as temporary chairman until the department found a leading black scholar as its permanent chairman. Henry Rosovsky, chairman of the special committee that first investigated Afro-American studies here, also was appointed to the committee...
John Hanify '71, president of the Harvard Undergraduate Council was easily the most popular speaker at the symposium. Clyde E. Lindsay '69, a member of Afro, also received praise, but the venom was heaped on Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, who, one member of the class of '44 said, "only mouthed a lot of words." Opinions of the Faculty were generally very low. One class member said he thought the Faculty should be abolished. Most seemed to feel that the Faculty had been weak-kneed in dealing with the University Hall takeover and should have taken a stronger stand...
...adhere to this rule, but then sat back and proceeded to enjoy to prospect of not attending classes--in contrast to Harvard-perusual, where I failed to attend them but got depressed about it. As the next logical step, I began to absorb the issues of the strike--ROTC, Afro-American Studies, expansion--and could see nothing objectionable and a lot of good in the position staked out by the first mass meeting...