Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Afro-American Cultural Center had beenformed after the campus riots and sit-ins of 1969.One of the protestors' demands was help in formingan Afro-American center. The University acquiescedand pledged to help the new groups raise anendowment...
...endowment peaked at $150,000 and thenfell. With an operating budget in the tens ofthousands of dollars per year, the Afro-Americancenter was doomed to run out of money fast...
...center, working in coordination withcampus minority groups, pressed the issues. Theyasked for a University-funded Third World CulturalCenter, which would absorb the Afro-AmericanCenter. The obvious choice for the Third Worldcenter would have been 74 Mt. Auburn...
Without the hope of a funded Third Worldcenter, the Afro-American Cultural Center hadlittle hope of restoring itself. Kazana saidHarvard made matters worth by mismanaging thecenter's endowment. Things got so bad that theadministration began paying her salary because thecenter had so little money left...
After the Afro-American Cultural Center died,the question of who would occupy 74 Mt. Auburn wasanswered...