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

 



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 **February 28, 2020** 

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 **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](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/hutchins/files/puseyruden.jpg)

 

 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**

- Harvard Crimson: [Harvard Celebrates 50 Years of African and African American Studies](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/3/2/aaas-anniversary-symposium/)
- Harvard Magazine: [African and African-American Studies Celebrates 50 Years](https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2020/03/african-and-african-american-studies-celebrates-50-years)

 See also: [AAAS 50th Anniversary Symposium](https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/AAAS50)

The Rudenstine Gallery and Cooper Gallery and both virtual for now. See our closure announcement [here](/announcement-rudenstine-gallery-about-covid-19).

 

 



 

 

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