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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nine-member Faculty committee, chaired by Economics professor Henry Rosovsky, was commissioned to investigate establishing some form of Black Studies program at the University. The Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students, the negotiating arm of AAAAS, worked closely with the Faculty group during the rest of the spring and the following fall. In January of 1969, after eight months of exhaustive research, the Rosovsky Committee issued its long awaited report...

Author: By Lee A. Daniels, | Title: Black Studies Department Reflects a Decade of Change | 9/24/1970 | See Source »

...more courses in African Studies, and an increased enrollment of blacks in the University's graduate schools-was that of the "development of undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Afro-American Studies." (The wording of this specific recommendation is important to note. By a prior agreement between the Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students and the Faculty Committee, the document was purposely ambiguous about what form-whether departmental or interdisciplinary-Afro-American Studies at Harvard was to assume in order to make its passage before the Faculty smoother. But the Ad Hoc Committee had made it clear to the Rosovsky...

Author: By Lee A. Daniels, | Title: Black Studies Department Reflects a Decade of Change | 9/24/1970 | See Source »

...visibility of BITCHES and WITCHES, the heart of the movement is made up of hundreds of "rap groups," usually formed on an ad hoc basis. "Consciousness raising" is their aim: the establishment of a common understanding of the problems that women face in a male-dominated society. The usual group meets one night a week, numbers eight to twelve women, and concentrates on topics such as attitudes toward work, marriage, families, feminist history and woman's role in society. Again and again, phrases like this are heard: "I was desperate when I came to Women's Lib ... I always thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who's Come a Long Way, Baby? | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

...from a blanket, hard-sell promotion (including phone calls to every parish in the country). Some of it is also a response to the unyielding ideology of Jesuit Editor Daniel Lyons, who would have the U.S. blockade Haiphong and send Nationalist Chinese troops to Viet Nam. While an ad hoc committee of bishops was working to resolve the California table-grape strike, Lyons castigated both the bishops and the strikers. On matters of doctrine Twin Circle has supported the Pope vociferously, and has reflected traditionalist misgivings about innovations in the Church. Recently it warned darkly of "theological abuses" that might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Religious Press: The Printed Word Embattled | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

...more courses in African Studies, and an increased enrollment of blacks in the University's graduate schools- was that of the "development of undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Afro-American Studies." (The wording of this specific recommendation is important to note. By a prior agreement between the Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students and the Faculty Committee, the document was purposely ambiguous about what form- whether departmental or interdisciplinary- Afro-American Studies at Harvard was to assume in order to make its passage before the Faculty smoother. But the Ad Hoc Committee had made it clear to the Rosovsky...

Author: By Lee A. Daniels, | Title: Ten Years Later: Black Studies Department Reflects a Decade of Change | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

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