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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Malcolm's murder, almost certainly at the hands of the Black Muslims from whom he had defected, came on a bright Sunday afternoon in full view of 400 Negroes in the Audubon Ballroom, a seedy two-story building on Manhattan's upper Broadway. Characteristically, he had kept his followers waiting for nearly an hour while he lingered over tea and a banana split at a nearby Harlem restaurant...
...their vows of revenge, the Malcolm X followers were as good as their word. In Harlem, less than 36 hours after the murder, a fire bomb tossed from an adjacent rooftop through an upper window of the Black Muslims' Mosque No. 7 sent flames shooting 30 feet into the night sky, gutted the building. Six firemen were hurt when a wall caved in, and 320 cops rushed to Harlem from three boroughs under a "rapid mobilization" order after the alarm was sounded. In San Francisco, another mosque was set ablaze, but firemen quickly doused...
...Higginson Professor of History. Albert Craig, associate professor of Japanese History, who teaches the course with Fairbank, said that the course's status was changed to allow students "to take Soc Sci III early and have time to study further in the field as undergraduates." He emphasized, however, that upper-classmen would still be admitted to the course, even if they had already taken a lower-level...
Several new upper-level courses will be offered next Fall as well. Mark De-Wolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, and Stanley Kats, assistant professor of History, will give an upper-level Soc Sci course on "civil rights in American history." Kats speculated last night that the course "will proably not place as much emphasis on contemporary issues as people would like." The first semester will trace the history of civil rights to the Civil War, and the second semester will deal primarily with the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments...
...course in "Nazi totalitarianism," taught by Richard Hunt, assistant professor of Social Studies, and a new course on Africa offered by Robert I. Rotberg, assistant professor of History, will also be offered as upper-level Soc Scis...