Word: bsa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protests look different. When the Minority Students Association raised the issue of minority faculty hiring last year, they published a report. And at a recent Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association (BSA) rally, administrators greeted the ralliers and asked them to come back again soon...
...example of Black students' new efforts is the minority reunion itself. In 1985, the BSA, the Association of Black Radcliffe Women and the Afro-American Cultural Center planned the first minority alumni weekend. It took nearly a year to plan, says Anne C. Bailey '86, one of the organizers, "but by the time the weekend rolled around there was a lot of administration support." The reunion is now held every other year...
Around the same time, racial violence across the country increased. Although racial incidents at universities did not receive national attention until 1986, Henderson says the BSA served as a forum for discussing and reacting to racism that existed in the early 1980s as well...
...Harvard campus, threats were made against the then-president of the BSA, Henderson said. And Bailey, who came to Harvard in 1982, says that by that time, most Black students had friends at other schools where there were also threats of violence...
...graduates, the BSA was a place to discuss Black life on campus. And several alumni, particularly those from the earlier years, emphasized that the BSA also provided them with a sense of community...