Galleries

Visit to University of Cambridge

Watch the ceremony on YouTube: Cambridge confers honorary degrees to ten luminaries

From Clare College:

Mohamed A. El-Erian and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

HLG visit to Queens' College Cambridge

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Rumbidzai Dube, Tomi Akingbade, and Mohamed A. El-Erian

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Rumbidzai Dube, Tomi Akingbade, and Mohamed A. El-Erian

Wole Soyinka

HLG visit to Queens' College Cambridge

Wole Soyinka

HLG visit to Queens' College Cambridge

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

HLG visit to Queens' College Cambridge

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

HLG visit to Queens' College Cambridge

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

HLG visit to Queens' College Cambridge

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Wole Soyinka, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Wole Soyinka, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in a bookstore

Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. walking in red robes

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

HLG visit to Queens' College Cambridge

Wole Soyinka, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Anthony Appiah

Soyinka, Gates, Appiah

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

Curated by Dell M. Hamilton

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

Portrait of Lee S. Smith ’69, Student Activist and Managing Editor for the Harvard Yearbook

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

“Stop Racism, End the War”

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

Eileen J. Southern (1920-2002)

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

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

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

Harvard Student March in Support of Black Studies

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

Harvard Stadium Meeting

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

Harvard Student Takeover of University Hall

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students (AFRO) Meeting with Harvard Faculty

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

Collection of images documenting several protests organized by the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students (AFRO)

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students (AFRO)

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

Harvard Stadium Rally

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

Civil Rights Activist Julian Bond (1940-2015) Addresses the Harvard Community at Sanders Theater

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students (AFRO) March in Support of an Afro-American Studies Department

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

Harvard Yearbook

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

Harvard Students March in Support of Black Studies

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

Newsweek and Harvard Magazine

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

Harvard Yearbook, Time Magazine, and Ramparts

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

State Police Attack Student Activists in Harvard Yard

'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students (AFRO) Meeting with Civil Rights Activist Whitney Young, Jr. (1921-1971)