Word: afros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particpated in the building occupation and strike to demand the removal of ROTC training from Harvard, and end to Harvard's eviction of low-income tenants and demolition of affordable housing in Cambridge and the establishment of an Afro-American studies department. We believe these demands to have been justified, and the actions we took to have been necessitated by the intransigence of the Harvard administration in refusing to respond to student and faculty concerns...
...before then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 sent in 400 police officers to evict them forcibly. A three-day student strike followed the bust, and the turmoil led to faculty acceptance of the protester's demands, which included the abolition of ROTC on campus and the creation of an Afro-American Studies Department...
...there were changes. ROTC was voted off campus by the faculty, an Afro-American Studies Department was voted in. Dean Ford, sidelined by a stroke one week after the takeover, eventually resigned his position. So did Dean of the College Fred Glimp...
...students' demands became more focused and their tactics more militant, the faculty was forced to take action. First, in February 1969, they voted to demote ROTC to extracurricular status and to institute a concentration in Afro-American Studies...
After the University Hall takeover, they acceded to student demands to create a formal department in Afro-American Studies controlled largely by students, and to gradually move ROTC off the campus...