Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement issued yesterday, Afro said, "Martin Luther King was created of all dream, the same dream which created all those of the same heart, no matter what the ideology. The fortieth anniversary of his birth is not a wake, but rather a resurrection," the statement continued, "a reaffirmation of the determination to liberate all people...
Skip Griffin '71, president of Afro, said that Rev. Virgil Wood, director of Blue Hill Christian Center in Roxbury, will lead the service. In addition, Griffin will reiterate the demands that Afro presented to the University at the time of King's death last spring...
Many memorial services are being held across the country in connection with a request by Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy that King's birthday be made a national holiday. The Harvard Afro service, however, has been planned and carried out independent of other services in the Cambridge area...
...other developments, the faculty late Monday approved the establishment of a legitimate Department of African and Afro-American Studies as soon as the black students withdraw from the building...
...sank into another round of frustrating negotiations with Robert R. Smith. Smith, who was then riding the hot seat as S.F. State's president, had the unenviable job of convincing the BSU that the college couldn't accept plans to admit all black applicants or immediately set up an Afro-American studies department...