Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Hall, Afro-Am search committee members were advised by other faculty members to try a "sociological approach" to hiring Black professors...
Because of this incident, Hall sought a degree in African history and became a leading member in the student movement for an African-American studies department at Harvard. Today, Hall is a professor of Afro-American studies and a historian at Northeastern University...
...involvement in the Afro-American struggle was directly linked to my concentration," Hal says. "There were no history courses that focused mainly on the African-American experience, none...
...satisfy his academic interest, Hall says he tried to take every course at the College that involved Africa. Hall became an active member of the AAAAS Committee on Negro Studies. The committee worked to introduce more Afro-American studies classes into the curriculum and to hire more Black faculty...
Hall was one of the three students on the six-member search committee, created from the Rosovsky committee's report, to review candidates to chair the new Afro-American studies program...