Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...direction is ultimately what is at stake here. Social sciences 5, officially catalogued as "The Afro-American Experience," is only a starting point. It is the first black course offered by Harvard; there will be others. How many others, what shape they will take, when they will appear -- these are matters that will be influence by the success or failure of this pilot course...
...Young Republican Club, Executive Committee; H-R Afro; Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs; Junior Usher...
...while under the guise of intellectual argument--I am advised by LeRoi Jones' words--"check yourself." This was precisely the reaction that seized me by the end of last week's heated exchange between Dr. Martin Kilson and black students over the nature of Social Sciences 5 (The Afro-American Experience in America...
...their rush to relevancy, Harvard, or more particularly the history department, overlooked the fact that black students would be concerned with the "intellectual salt" of a course on the Afro-American experience. Certainly the black students who called Professor Friedel into question took a more direct route than is usually seen at Harvard, and indeed some toes were stepped on. But I'm less concerned that some toes got stepped on (though I must confess a certain chagrin that it happened to a man who has been a constant, even if quiet, advocate for black dignity) than with the fact...
...disingenuous of Jeffrey Howard, ex-President of the Afro-American Association, to turn my effort to identify the nature of some Negro students' criticism of Social Sciences 5 into an endeavor to exacerbate these students' relationships to the course. I remain of the opinion that racial bigotry and anti-intellectualism motivate their criticism, and if to state this inflames the black critics of Social Sciences 5 then they ought to grow...