Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wilson "might be speaking French, talking jive or speaking straight standard English," says Robert L. Hall '69, who worked with Wilson on the Afro-Am ad hoc committee. He was always controlled and comfortable, "almost chameleon-like...
...committee's main goal was to secure the establishment of an Afro-American studies department at Harvard...
...committees ultimately decided to compromise, offering students beginning with members of the class of '72 the chance to earn A.B. degrees in Afro-American Studies, which would be awarded outside of a specific departmental structure...
Negotiations broke down once the full faculty got involved in the spring of 1969. The morning after police cleared Vietnam protesters out of University Hall, the faculty released an outline of a three-year program entitled Afro-American Studies Combined with One Allied Field...
According to Wilson, the program had not been cleared with the ad hoc committee and Black students were insulted by the requirement of combining Afro-Am with another concentration. Black students complained of being "sold out" by the administration...