Word: afros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evening, the council passed a resolution congratulating Professor of Afro-American Studies and Professor of the Philosophy of Religion Cornel R. West '74 and Wiener Professor of Social Policy William Julius Wilson, who are the first black scholars to be appointed to the position of University Professor...
Critical issues included the war in Vietnam, U.S. involvement in Cambodia, apartheid in South Africa and a stronger Afro-American studies department...
History professor Ernest R. May (right) takes over as dean of the College after Fred L. Glimp '50 resigns from the post. Harvard begins the year with an Afro-American Studies Department for the first time, offering 17 courses. On September 25, Harvard announces plans to sponsor low- and moderate-income housing in Cambridge...
...Afro-American Studies Department, in its second year, claims 22 concentrators and 160 other students...
...days later, black students from Afro andthe Pan-African Liberation Committee take overMassachusetts Hall in protest of the University'sinvestment in Gulf Oil. The students object toGulf Oil's practices in Angola and refused torelinquish the building until Harvard sold itsinterests in Gulf...