Word: pan-african
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...idea has its roots in W.E.B. DuBois' 1909 proposal for a Pan-African encyclopedia, Appiah said. DuBois, who graduated from Harvard in 1890, never saw his idea come to fruition because of a lack of funding...
...spring 1972, three years after a student takeover of University Hall jolted Harvard into the age of campus unrest, a group of black students from Harvard-Radcliffe Afro and the Pan-African Liberation Committee took over Mass. Hall, headquarters of the central administration. Demanding that the University sell its investments with Gulf Oil Corp., which allegedly aided the Portuguese government fighting rebels in Angola, the students stayed in the building for six days before finally leaving...
...days later, black students from Afro andthe Pan-African Liberation Committee take overMassachusetts Hall in protest of the University'sinvestment in Gulf Oil. The students object toGulf Oil's practices in Angola and refused torelinquish the building until Harvard sold itsinterests in Gulf...
...dozen black protesters seize Massachusetts Hall at dawn in protest of the Corporation's Gulf Oil Decision. That night, a meeting of 2,000 students in Sanders Theatre calls for a five-day strike against the war and in support of the Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC) seizure of Mass. Hall...
...April 6, 1972, the Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC) and sympathetic students took over Massachusetts Hall to protest Harvard's ownership of stock in Gulf Oil, which was involved at the time in Angola, a site of Portuguese colonialism...