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

Date: 

Friday, 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

The Rudenstine Gallery and Cooper Gallery and both virtual for now. See our closure announcement here.