Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only two tenured faculty members are currently teaching in the department, and it has been unable to fill vacant senior posts for the past several years. Many students charge that the administration is unwilling to support Black studies with financial and other support--and that perhaps, is also the legacy of Afro-Am's early years...
...Since '69, if you're in New York City, everything has to be locked up...I was held up by a Black yesterday...
During the two-day takeover and the three-day student strike that followed, classes didn't happen. Or they went outside. Black students held colloqiua of their own, because Harvard's curriculum didn't address "relevant issues." Striking teaching fellows met for rap goups in what became known as the "Harvard New College...
Today--A noon rally in front of University Hall. Alumni from the 1969 student strike and undergraduate student leaders will speak on activism then and now. There will be speakers from student groups including La Alianza, Black Law Students' Association, Committee on Central America, Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association, Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, Dining Services Union, Minority Students' Alliance, Southern Africa Solidarity Committee and the Woman's Alliance. Music by the Radical Arms Troop and the Pipettes...
...issues were unique to the particular colleges, but across-the-board they reflected a growing sense of discontent with traditional education and its social implications. Black studies, draft resistance, anti-war protest and community relations dominated the activists' demands, as students joined with progressive faculty and community organizations to challenge the power of the university...