Word: constitutionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The executive committee of the proposed Harvard Association of African and Afro-American Students has directed me to present this short explanation of our petition for official recognition. The decision to seek University recognition was taken by the general membership of the Association after careful and prolonged debate. As outlined...
(2) The Council hardly considered what we presented to them in our constitution. Our membership clause reads:
"Membership of the Association shall be open to African and Afro-American students currently enrolled at Harvard and Radcliffe. This clause, as we see it, is a purely inclusive statement. We cannot see how the Council had read it to exclude all other people. We had no need for the...
Suggestions have been made to us even from very unexpected sources that we word our membership clause in such a way that we do not appear to discriminate against any people while still reserving our power to actually do so safely. We have rejected such suggestions on several grounds: First...
We hereby reiterate our desire for official recognition and we ask that you give due and unbiased thought to our aims and organization as expressed in our constitution. If these are in accordance with the stipulations of the University, we ask to be accredited. We realize that it is University...