The Extraordinary Commission: Student Activism and the Birth of Afro-American Studies at Harvard

Date and Time

February 28, 2020
All day

Location

Neil L. and Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery, Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn Street, Floor 3R, Cambridge, MA
African American Harvard students holding placards during a protest against the Vietnam War and in support of a Black Studies curriculum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 1969

Photo by Leonard McCombe | African American Harvard students holding placards during a protest against the Vietnam War and in support of a Black Studies curriculum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 1969 | Courtesy of The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

VIEW VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AT: hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/extraordinary-commission

Curated by Dell M. Hamilton

See also: AAAS 50th Anniversary Symposium

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