Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Association of African and Afro-American Students (Afro) will meet today to select five student observers for Tuesday's Faculty meeting on the Rosovsky report...
Dean Ford last week invited Afro and the Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students to choose up to five students to attend the meeting. After the Feb. 4 Faculty meeting on ROTC--which nine specially-invited students attended--Tuesday meeting will be the second "open" Faculty meeting in Harvard's history...
...School of Education sees clearly the need to help provide Afro-Americans, Puerto Ricans and Mexican-Americans for positions of leadership in the nation's schools. Last year it raised more than $60,000, much of it from its own members, to further a new effort toward this end. It undertook a very successful recruitment drive, using black students and alumni, in Boston, New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Detroit. The result is that black students are conspicuous by their numbers in this year's entering class. And concerned as never before by the fact that minority groups have produced...
...presented the school superintendent with a list of ten demands that is a virtual carbon copy of what blacks are agitating for on college campuses. The superintendent and the board of education are considering all the demands, and have agreed to one: they have added a course on Afro-American culture that will begin this week and be taught by a black instructor...
...Boston high schools, black students have demonstrated in the streets for the right to form an Afro club and wear Afro clothes, and had their demands granted. In Cambridge, they have sought to be photographed for the yearbook with fists raised proudly in the Black Power salute; they were turned down by the white principal, on the ground that "yearbook pictures are supposed to be static and not show subjects in motion...