Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, Hamilton was thinking primarily of Harvard's Association of African and Afro-American Students (Afro). But this Spring, immediately after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., anguished and angry black students formed an Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students which quickly won major political concessions from the University...
...your Essay "What Can I Do?" [May 17]: in an Afro-American history class I have learned what really took place in this democratic U.S. 100 years ago that I was not taught in high school or college. While the people of this country are paying homage to such men as Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson and Patrick Henry, they would do well to honor Stevens, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison and Denmark Vesey. The greatest personal commitment one can make to himself today is "Learn, Baby, Learn...
...some schools a concern for racial problems has affected blacks' attitudes toward athletics. At Berkeley a basketball player refused to cut his "Afro,"--long hair--and, in support, some other players quit the team...
These changes apply only to African studies and only next year (Ford calls them "strictly stop-gap"). A Faculty Committee on Afro-American Studies was created about a month ago, and when its recommendations for a permanent Harvard program of Afro-American studies are formed and adopted the cross-registration will probably be phased...
...cross-registration will be reciprocal, but only within the field of African Studies. Ford said that B.U., M.I.T., and Brandeis students probably would not be able to get into Harvard's new Gen Ed course on "The Afro-American Experience," which is likely to be overapplied by Harvard and Radcliffe students...