Word: afros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's Black students, politicized since the death of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. through the African and Afro-American Association of Students (commonly called Afro), largely avoided the radical, anti-war political groups such as SDS, centering their activism on the issue of an Afro-American Studies Department...
...return, Afro pledged to support amnesty for the students arrested in the takeover and to back the anti-war and anti-Harvard expansion demands...
...time it was clear that SDS was going to strike, the political climate became favorable for those who wanted to press for more," says Roderick J. Harrison '70, an associate professor of Afro-American studies and sociology...
Pressing for more in that context meant rejecting the terms of a report on Afro-Am that just two months earlier had received the faculty's approval...
...February, the faculty committee led by Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky had released a report advocating the formation of a Standing Committee on Degrees in Afro-American Studies, similar to the programs in History and Literature and Social Studies...