Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Medical School's Committee on Disadvantaged Students released an ambitious report for attracting and keeping black and "disadvantaged minority" students at the school. The report asked the school to create 15 new scholarships of $5,000 each and to increase the size of a Med School class from...
November 7: A traditional "heckling debate" in Harvard's public speaking course led to a potentially explosive situation. One student came to the debate dressed as a Klansman and argued in favor of the proposition that "Black Power is ruining America." Although the debate directors and the student himself said that their intent was harmless, black students objected immediately. A statement from a black freshman and the president of Afro said that the debate topic was comparable to "having a debate on the extermination of Jews--and bringing in one participant dressed as a Nazi...
Winthrop House said that its annual spring Arts Festival would be run in association with Afro and would feature black artists. Tentative guest artists included James Baldwin, Leroi Jones, Marian Anderson, and others...
Meanwhile, black athletes criticized Harvard's sports policies on a WHRB panel. Football player John Tyson said he quit the team because he feld like a "gladiator in front of white alumni," while members of other teams said that Harvard coaches couldn't make full use of "the black athlete's style of playing...
November 22: Black students who had been working with a special Faculty committee to lay plans for a new emphasis on Afro-American studies at Harvard reacted to printed reports that the committee's chairman--Henry Rosovsky--did not plan to recommend an autonomous Afro-American Studies department. In an official statement, Afro said that a new department would help attract gradu...