Word: afros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee Dean Rosovsky created to define the Afro-American Study Department's "intellectual mission" held its first discussion of the department's future with its concentrators this week...
...time I go to an audition I feel they're looking at me only as a skin color." Hail feels that any actor should be allowed to audition for any role as long as he can make the characterization believable. "Besides," he says, "part of my and every other Afro-American's cultural experience is white, which makes me artistically capable of playing a white...
Unfortunately, Cedric Vessell's letter (9/27/70) only serves to perpetuate this feeling of antagonism and to alienate a group that has been at the forefront of civil rights struggles in this country for many years. To tie the plight of Afro-American Studies to the gains which Jews have made at Harvard is highly counterproductive, diverting attention from the institutionalized racism which is the heart of the problem...
...struggle for a strong and vital Afro-American Studies Department is one of the most important issues we face this year and will not be won unless we are united in the effort. Mark Lipman
Ferguson said four prospective faculty members for the Afro-American Studies Department said they did not want to join the department because of Cambridge's poor racial environment...