Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edwin Young vowed that the troops will remain "as long as needed." But at week's end, he announced that they would be withdrawn for "tonight, Saturday, Sunday and forever"-provided there were no new disturbances. - At Duke University in Durham, N.C., some 70 members of the Afro-American Society seized the ground floor of the administration building, dubbed it the "Malcolm X Liberation School" and held it for ten hours. Their principal desire: a black-studies program similar to those being started at Harvard, Yale and other Northern schools. When university officials finally gave the students one hour...
Guerrilla troops of Afro members did not converge on Hunt Hall ready to attack Professor Bruening if he refused to change his course topic. About a hundred members did come to the class meeting and one read to statement clarifying Afro's objections to the course. Afro did not protest the original course syllabus only because of ideological differences. The syllabus indicated that the material taught in the course might directly endanger the lives of black people who, because they live in ghettos, could easily become involved in a "riot". The syllabus offered city planners a chance to study...
Fred L. Glimp, dean of Harvard College, met yesterday with a committee of black students to work out fund-raising plans for the black cultural and recreational center suggested by the Rosovsky Report on African and Afro-American studies...
...objections to professor Breuning's course, and the emphasis on riot control in general, is that they ignore the more fundamental problem of the elimination of the conditions which impel people to riot and to violate the basic political rights of others. Similarly, the CRIMSON's condemnation of Afro's promise to cancel Planning 11-3b by force if necessary, totally disregards the conditions which lead some students at Harvard to consider the prospect of forceful violation of the academic rights of other students and faculty. Far from recognizing that force tactics might be a response not simply...
...Afro demonstrators argued Friday that Harvard was betraying the spirit of the Rosovsky report by allowing the riot-control seminar to be given. But the view-point of a single course, unlike investment policy, is not something for which the University as a whole should be held responsible. The University does have an obligation, as the Rosovsky committee said, "to create an environment in which racial justice prevails at all levels," but it is not clear that this effort must be at the expense of its responsibility to protect a plurality of intellectual approaches within its community...