Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Strike, as such, essentially petered out after a final Faculty meeting acceded to the key parts of Afro's demands concerning the Afro-American Studies Department. Since part of those demands involved a student role in selecting faculty for the department, the Faculty had to swallow hard...
Though anyone on the outside could never be sure, in many ways Afro always seemed to be the most adept political group in that spring...
...Afro was focused on its interests, and made sure everyone else was too, but it didn't commit itself to any other faction. When the Faculty met on the Afro demands, a number of Afro members sat in the Loeb lobby and one held a meat cleaver in his hand...
Whether this was calculated or spontaneous, it gave a chilling background to the Faculty's deliberations that worked to Afro's advantage...
...renowned student activist who was instrumental in the birth of the Afro-American Studies Department in 1969, Wilson also pursued less radical activities...