Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AMHERST--As part of a continuing effort to educate the public about the persecution of Black Ethiopian Jews. Hillel at the University of Massachusetts is organizing a used clothing drive to aid those who succeed in immigrating to Israel...
...miles south of Lucy's burial grounds. Clark's 15-member expedition is the first scientific team to dig in the remote, fiercely inhospitable valley since the fighting between Ethiopia and Somalia began to ease three years ago. Even so, the scientists took protective measures, hiring Ethiopian game wardens and rifle-bearing Afar tribesmen who also toted knives half the size of machetes...
Casting the role of the black slave Jim required more ingenuity. Govorukhin searched the universities for likely black students from Ethiopia, Angola or Mozambique. He finally selected an Ethiopian named Behailu Mengesha, who was studying at Moscow's Patrice Lumumba People's Friendship University. Mengesha, who is now back home in Ethiopia, resisted pressures from friends, who advised him that playing the role of a slave would be demeaning...
...case of Ephraim Isaacs, a former assistant professor in the department who was denied tenure in 1975, has come to symbolize for many students and alumni this question of departmental focus. Isaacs is a Black Ethiopian scholar, who is challenging his tenure denial as discrimination, and part of a concerted effort of the department to root out Africanists. They say that the Isaacs case is a crucial opportunity to force the department to study the African side as well. A leader of the alumni committee has said that limiting Afro-Am's focus to events since the slaves arrived...
Isaac's case has become a rallying point for some of those interested in the department because it appears he was denied tenure because his specialty is Ethiopian history. Dayna L. Cunningham '80, an organizer of the alumni group, said this week. The department is trying to limit its academic locus to post slave trade. America and is purging it self of Africanists, she added...