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...whole history of that struggle needs to be told in an appropriate fashion. People have written as though the department started overnight,” Isaac says. “But the truth of the matter is I feel victorious that what I sacrificed myself for is now right in name...
...Isaac sued the University after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission granted him a “right-to-sue notice” in April 1980, and, after a nine-year battle, eventually settled the suit out of court, with Harvard agreeing to pay for his legal fees and as well as offering to give him a position as a Fellow...
...eighties, it seemed the Department of Afro-American Studies would continue to exist as a separate field of concentration at Harvard. However, as Isaac notes, by the time the survival of the department was assured, it “had already cut out all of the Africa courses—no Swahili, no African religions...
...more than 30 years after Isaac taught his introductory Ethiopian language class, the African Languages Program has over 90 students and offers at least ten African languages annually. The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American research is thriving in its new space on Mt. Auburn street, with research projects divided between African-American studies and African studies...
...While these victories are clearly cause for celebration for Isaac and others who saw the department through its troubled first decades, the story of the fight for these changes still remains to be uncovered...