Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spokesman said the group was made up of members of Northeastern's SDS and Afro-American society, along with dissident student council members...
...open to potential student malcontents. Last fall, for example, he overheard a group of black students criticizing the university, promptly invited them in for a four-hour rehashing of what they felt was wrong. Partly as a result of the discussion, Young pushed through a student-organized course in Afro-American history. This fall the university is also admitting 100 promising but technically unqualified ghetto youths into a special program that will prepare them for normal academic study...
...spurn white America and propagate the nightmare of ghetto violence. To others, Black Power is the impractical dream of a separate black state. But the term can also connote the emergence of Negroes as a cohesive political force, the building of black economic muscle, the recognition of an Afro-American cultural identity. To many black leaders, that is the only realistic meaning of the slogan. Last week the National Urban League, long attacked by militants as the button-down, archconservative wing of the civil rights movement, embraced Black Power-in its achievable definition...
...seriously. Unlike some Negro publications, it has not banned the word Negro, but uses it interchangeably with the more fashionable "black." A recent editorial tried good-humoredly to put the matter in perspective. It described an after-dinner speaker who began: "Mr. Chairman, distinguished platform guests and my fellow Afro-Americans, Negro, Black, Colored, Soul Brothers and Sisters ..." To some militants, including some members of the staff, Ebony is too smugly middleclass. To which Executive Editor Herbert Nipson replies: "Some people expect Ebony, because it is a Negro magazine, to print propaganda for every black program that comes along...
...computer programming, Swahili, and microwelding. "We consider everything that goes on here a school," says Co-Founder Lou Smith. Aimed primarily at preparing dropouts for available jobs rather than college, the program helps pay its own way by mining the talents of the students, who have published books on Afro-American history and designed African-style shirts and dresses that were featured at a fashion show at Las Vegas' Sands Hotel...