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Louis Armstrong was so much, in fact, that the big bands sounded like him, their featured improvisers took direction from him, and every school of jazz since has had to address how he interpreted the basics of the idiom--swing, blues, ballads and Afro-Hispanic rhythms. While every jazz instrumentalist owes him an enormous debt, singers as different as Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and Marvin Gaye have Armstrong in common as well. His freedom, his wit, his discipline, his bawdiness, his majesty and his irrepressible willingness to do battle with deep sorrow...
...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...
Radcliffe College doled out its highest undergraduate honor to a Boston area native this year. Rebecca C. Kiley '98, an Afro-American studies concentrator, was named the 1998 recipient of the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize at the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association's Strawberry Tea for graduating senior women...
Kiley has maintained a near perfect academic record during her four years at Harvard and is graduating with highest honors in Afro-American studies. Kiley was also inducted into Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa chapter...