Records of the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center, and undated 1969-1975, 1981-1982,

Corning Glass Works

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Corning Glass Works was founded in 1851 by Amory Houghton, in Somerville, Massachusetts, originally as the Bay State Glass Co. It later moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, and operated as the Brooklyn Flint Glass Works. The company moved again to its ultimate home and eponym, the city of Corning, New York, in 1868 under leadership of the founder's son, Amory Houghton, Jr. The California Institute of Technology's 200-inch (5.1 m) telescope mirror at Palomar Observatory was cast by Corni...

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

Potter, Robert S.

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Percy L. Julian Science Organization.

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United Committee of Third World Organizations, petition to President Bok on the W.E.B. DuBois Institute

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Kaplan, Kivie, 1904-1975

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Kivie Kaplan was born on April 1, 1904 in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1924, Kivie Kaplan and his brothers took over their father's leather businesses. He had joined the N.A.A.C.P. in 1932 and was elected President in 1966; he held that post until his death. ...

Farmer, Francesta

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United Committee of Third World Organizations

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Bridgewater State College

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Cook, Joe

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Black Science Students Organization

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Tufts University

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Association of Black Faculty, Administrators, and Teaching Fellows at Harvard University

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White, Theodore

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Leonard, Walter

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Community House

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Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005

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Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (1924-2005) activist, educator, politician and author was born in Brooklyn, New York, the oldest of four girls. She lived in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn with her factory worker father, Charles (originally from British Guyana) and her seamstress and domestic worker mom, Ruby Seale (who came from Barbados). Between 1927 and 1934, Chisholm was sent to live with her grandmother, Emaline Seale, in Christ Church, Barbados. Chisholm attended local school, ...

Lockhart, Theodore

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Harvard Black Students Association

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The Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association, also known as the BSA, was established during the 1976-1977 academic year, in response to a call to protest an article in the Harvard Lampoon. Replacing the then-defunct Association of African and Afro-American Students at Harvard and Radcliffe (AFRO), the BSA aimed to present the black student perspective on minority issues at Harvard, such as affirmative action and the development of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department. As a deliberate c...

Parker, John A., 1804-

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Roxbury Boys' Club

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The Black Ghetto Theatre Company

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New England Black Student Leadership Conference

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Roger Williams College

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Galbraith, John Kennth

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The National Center of Afro-American Artists

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Society of Black Composers

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The Society of Black Composers was founded in 1968 by a group of composers in the New York City area. The aim of the Society was to promote the works of contemporary black composers in order to educate the community at large. The Society held several concerts and residencies before financial problems forced it to become inactive around 1973. From the description of Papers, 1968-73 and 1978. (Columbia College Chicago). WorldCat record id: 50918524 ...

New Urban League of Greater Boston

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Smith College.

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Since 1900, Christmas at Smith College has involved the sending of cards, the singing of carols and the annual Vespers. Smith College's Christmas Vespers has allowed religious and non-religious students alike to come together and appreciate the music and spirit of the holiday season. At this annual candlelight ceremony, Smith College choral groups perform seasonal songs and religious readings. From the description of Records of Christmas at Smith College, 1900-[ongoing]. (Smith Colle...

Association of Black Radcliffe Women history

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Roxbury Medical-Technical Institute

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Friends Meeting at Cambridge

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Fashion Institute of Technology

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Dennis Wiley Black Ensemble

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Cornell University

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Norman Foundation

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Radcliffe Club of New York.

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Cambridge Community Center

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Stern, Philip M.

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Philip Maurice Stern (1926-1992), journalist and author, was Director of Research for the Democratic National Committee from 1953 to 1956. He served as editor and publisher of the Northern Virginia Sun from 1957 to 1960, then Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from 1961 to 1962. Stern wrote The Oppenheimer Case in 1969 and The Rape of the Taxpayer in 1973. From the description of Stern, Philip M. (Philip Maurice), 1926-1992 (U.S. National Archives and Records Admi...

Rockefeller Family Fund.

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University system of Maryland

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Rice, Lois D.

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Rothschild, Jr., Walter

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VOICES, Inc.

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House of Youth

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Ewart Guinier.

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Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center.

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In January 1969, the Faculty Committee on African and Afro-American Studies, chaired by Henry Rosovsky, published a report on Afro-American Studies at Harvard . The Rosovsky Report, as it was known, recommended the establishment of a social and cultural center for black students. Due at least in part to this recommendation, the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center, also known as HRAACC, was established in the fall of 1969 as a non-profit corporation administratively and f...

Nash, Bradley

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V.I.T.A., Inc.

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Guess, Jerry

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Association of African and Afro-American Students at Harvard and Radcliffe

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The Association of African and Afro-American Students of Harvard and Radcliffe, frequently referred to as AFRO, was founded in the spring of 1963 and officially recognized that December. The student group identified itself as Pan-Africanist, and automatically granted membership to any black student at Harvard. The group served both a social and political function, although the emphasis changed from year to year. By 1977, the group was defunct, due to a lack of funding and student support, and ha...

Waganga

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Afro-American Studies Department

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Bill Bennett's

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Gordon College

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United Front of Cairo

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The United Front of Cairo, Illinois was an organization founded in 1969-1970, in response to racist attacks against the black population in Cairo, Illinois. The United Front was founded and led by Reverend Charles Koen. On March 31, 1969, white vigilante groups ("White Hats"), in cooperation with the local police, shot into an all-black housing project for two and a half hours. Although it was not the first attack on the black population in Cairo, it led the impetus to begin an economic boycott ...