Word: afros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anthony Brutus '77-5 said he does not believe the committee members support the department. "I don't see anyone on the committee who is a real ally of Afro-American Studies," he added...
Ferguson said the committee plans to seek input from both junior faculty and students. Afro-Am's junior faculty last spring voiced their dissatisfaction with the department and with Southern at two meetings with Rosovsky, Brutus said...
Josephine Wright and Harrington Benjamin, assistant professors of Afro-American Studies, declined to comment on Southern's resignation...
Rosovsky said he hopes the committee will reverse past University failures to attract prominent scholars in Afro-American Studies to Harvard. In the past eight years, Harvard offered tenure to five scholars, and each refused...
...department now has one and a half tenured professors--Southern and Ewart Guinier '33, who is semi-retired. The lack of senior faculty in Afro-Am drew harsh criticism last spring, as students held a series of demonstrations charging Harvard--and Rosovsky in particular--with failing to search aggressively for tenured faculty, depriving the department of funding and planning to demote it to an interdisciplinary committee...