Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alvin L. Bragg Jr. '95, president of the BSA, says the University must hire more Black faculty in areas other than Afro-American Studies...
LESLIE GRIFFIN 70 (right), president of AAAS, speaks to students as the Faculty votes on the group's demands for an Afro-American studies department and a cultural center. Alumni say the crusade was just one aspect of the Black movement at Harvard. 1ROTCleader of the Students for a Democratic Society(SDS) led 300 students to the house of PresidentNathan M. Pusey '28 and tacked a list of sixdemands on his locked door...
...main demand of the group, the forerunner of the Black Students' Association, was a call for the establishment of an Afro-American studies program...
...Harvard and throughout the nation, Blacks stood on the threshold of full integration. Having won gains in the political and social areas, Black students at Harvard were crusading to clinch the last gain, to have an Afro-Am program of their own. Former students say this struggle for academic recognition parallels Black people's national quest for complete integration...
...University responded to AAAAS's demand byconvening a committee. In a published report, thecommittee, chaired by then-Professor of EconomicsHenry Rosovsky, recommended the establishment of asocial and cultural center for Black students, anintensified recruitment effort for Blackprofessors and graduate students, and thedevelopment of a standing committee on jointdegrees in Afro-American Studies...