Word: pans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pan-Africanist philosophy that Malcolm X began to advocate in the last years of his life has come to dominate the thinking of the black movement of the 1970s. "New bridges must be built," Malcolm once declared. "In our people's minds, Africa is too far away." Blacks at Harvard have set about to build those bridges, to begin to protest the injustices in Angola and South Africa. Malcolm would have approved of the Massachusetts Hall takeover. His words might well have served as inspiration for the occupiers who were threatened with a court injunction. "Some people say they...
...MALCOLM stubbornly refused to let any man do his thinking for him. Leaving the Muslims, Malcolm began to articulate a Pan-Africanist philosophy. He traveled through Africa, and then made a pilgrimage to Mecca...
Deborah Bassett '74 contended that the students who occupied the building had exhausted all legal remedies in trying to get Harvard to sell its Gulf stock. She said that the efforts of the Pan African Liberation Committee and Harvard-Radcliffe Afro had been met by "insensitivity" from the Administration and the Corporation...
Members of the Pan African Liberation Committee (PALC) and Afro took over Massachusetts Hall to express their condemnation on Harvard's complicity in perpetuating Portuguese colonialism. They left the building undamaged. Yet Harvard is not only prosecuting these people for their actions in support of the cause of Angolan independence, but is also trying them before a kangaroo court, the CRR. The CRR is an illegitimate body which was last year repudiated by a majority of students. Currently there are no students serving on the Committee...
...Strategy Committee of Harvard-Radcliffe Afro and the Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC) yesterday announced plans to hold a mass rally in Forbes Plaza on Monday to protest the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) hearings on the April 20 take-over of Massachusetts Hall...