Word: afros
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...Ford, who was the dean of the faculty in1969, recalls that he and other faculty memberssaw departmentalization of Afro-Am as a big leapfrom its proposed program status--and they wereskeptical about a hasty construction...
Even Rosovsky committee member Martin L.Kilson, who in 1969 became Harvard's first Blacktenured professor, says he was opposed to thedepartmentalization of Afro...
Although the Faculty granted committee-statusto the fledgling Afro-Am program, students feltthat calling the program a "committee on degrees"rather than a department was indicative of a lackof University support...
...April 22,1969, attendance at the Facultymeeting was so high that professors had to meet inthe Loeb Theater. Once there, the faculty rejectedthe Rosovsky committee's proposal for a committeeon degrees and voted Afro-American studies fulldepartment status while a first-year with ameat-cleaver sat on the curb outside...
...results: while Afro-Am was only born a yearafter AAAAS began to launch their major protests,ethnic studies remains only a specialconcentration even one year after nine minoritygroups allied and stole the campus stage...