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Word: afros (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the seven-minute hearing yesterday, Harold Wahington, lecturer on Afro-American Studies and lawyer for OBU, argued that the injunction was unconstitutional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Court Continues OBU Injunction | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...member of the Afro-American Studies Department who helped organize the meeting said that the primary purpose was to create "a wide-ranging organization of black faculty and administrators." Such an organization, he said, could then take effective stands on issues like the Organization for Black Unity (OBU)'s demand that Harvard hire 20 per cent black and "Third World" workers...

Author: By Leonard S. Edgerly, | Title: Black Members of Faculty Try Forming United Front | 12/17/1969 | See Source »

Archie Epps, assistant dean of Harvard College, had no comment. Martin Kilson, professor of Government, said, "I don't plan to boycott; my job is to teach." Ewart G. Guinier 33, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, was unavailable for comment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBU Asks Black Students, Faculty To Boycott Classes and Go Home | 12/16/1969 | See Source »

...black Faculty member, Haywood Henry Jr., Visiting Lecturer on Afro-American Studies, called on all blacks at Harvard, including the faculty, to leave if the University takes further disciplinary action against the students involved in the takeover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBU Actions Backed By Floyd McKissick In Mem Church Rally | 12/15/1969 | See Source »

...University has contended first of all that setting the minimum number of minority workers at 20 per cent would be discriminatory since the proportion of non white workers in the metropolitan area work force falls far short of that figure. OBU disputes the Administration figure, but even if Afro were over-estimating the minority group percentage, their demand would still be legitimate. Tired reservations about "reverse discrimination" are insufficient excuse for not making every possible effort to assist minority group people in their effort to overcome the immense burdens which American society imposes upon them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Impasse | 12/13/1969 | See Source »

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