Word: afros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casualty of the job crunch and changing student mood is the Afro-American studies department, the creation of which was often one of the chief demands of campus militants. "Curriculum demands now run to courses like How to Operate Businesses in the Black Community," says William Banks, Afro-American studies chairman at Berkeley. At Harvard there are only ten Afro-American studies majors this year. Reports Eugene Matthews, a black in Harvard's class of 1980: "I was told not to take many black studies courses because law schools don't look favorably on them." Black studies programs...
...University Wednesday to visit classes, many Harvard students attended a very different kind of class--a "teachout" on South Africa. Over 400 students listened to speeches on Harvard's policy towards its South African investments, the plight of non-whites in South Africa and the state of Afro-American studies in the University. In a surprise move, over 300 marched to the Kennedy School to rename the Englehard Library in an emotional ceremony...
...school, Richard A. Guthrie '80, a member of the Committee to Strengthen Afro-American Studies (CSAAS), told the ralliers "we pledge out deeper commitment to the spirit of Afro-American Studies and to the struggles against racist oppression and its pomposity couched in supposedly responsible, morally bankrupt enclaves the world over...
Thursday, CSAAS initiated a petition drive demanding that the University appoint four additional tenured faculty to the Afro-American Studies Department and make the department a priority of its capital fund drive...
Banthin said a speaker would also discuss the status of the Afro-American Studies Department to "connect the issues of racism at home and abroad...