#  Galleries 

 



##  Visit to University of Cambridge 

Watch the ceremony on YouTube: [Cambridge confers honorary degrees to ten luminaries](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuiHPM6OSlI)

From Clare College:

[Black at Clare](https://stories.clare.cam.ac.uk/black-at-clare/index.html)

 

 



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

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   ![HLG visit to Queens' College Cambridge](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/fvx6wuqwiaensez.jpg?itok=kMlQ4IoJ) 

 



 

 

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

 ](/resource/henry-louis-gates-jr-rumbidzai-dube-tomi-akingbade-and-mohamed-el-erian) 

   ![Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Rumbidzai Dube, Tomi Akingbade, and Mohamed A. El-Erian](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/fvx6rnmwqaauvzy.jpg?itok=FC9Gzeir) 

 



 

 

   [### Wole Soyinka

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   ![HLG visit to Queens' College Cambridge](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/thumbnail_img-1836.jpeg?itok=UXoggn3L) 

 



 

 

   [### Wole Soyinka

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   ![HLG visit to Queens' College Cambridge](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/thumbnail_img-1835.jpeg?itok=XLWLHIpp) 

 



 

 

   [### Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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   ![HLG visit to Queens' College Cambridge](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/thumbnail_img-1833.jpeg?itok=nRsk_vYj) 

 



 

 

   [### Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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   ![HLG visit to Queens' College Cambridge](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/thumbnail_img-1832.jpeg?itok=6Jv7svg6) 

 



 

 

   [### Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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   ![HLG visit to Queens' College Cambridge](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/thumbnail_img-1830.jpeg?itok=VfVsGSLX) 

 



 

 

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

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   ![Kwame Anthony Appiah, Wole Soyinka, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in a bookstore](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/thumbnail_b35e60ff-1a10-4e0f-a48d-3a7069e1191c.jpeg?itok=1gWZV1nQ) 

 



 

 

   [### Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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   ![Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. walking in red robes](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/thumbnail_gates_and_appiah.jpeg?itok=Ucvynph6) 

 



 

 

   [### Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

 ](/resource/henry-louis-gates-jr) 

   ![HLG visit to Queens' College Cambridge](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/thumbnail_img-1829.jpeg?itok=qcIaokWG) 

 



 

 

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

 ](/resource/wole-soyinka-henry-louis-gates-jr-and-anthony-appiah) 

   ![Soyinka, Gates, Appiah](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/img_7841_01.jpg?itok=1ZMvMTMW) 

 



 

 

  

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

Curated by Dell M. Hamilton

 

 



  [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

 ](/resource/extraordinary-commission-virtual-tour-16) 

   ![Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students (AFRO)](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extaordinarycommission018.jpg?itok=K5ZdgPTT) 

 



 

 

   [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

 ](/resource/extraordinary-commission-virtual-tour-1) 

   ![Harvard Stadium Rally](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extraordinarycommission011.jpg?itok=L26Prn0Z) 

 



 

 

   [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

 ](/resource/extraordinary-commission-virtual-tour-17) 

   ![Civil Rights Activist Julian Bond (1940-2015) Addresses the Harvard Community at Sanders Theater](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extraordinarycommission010.jpg?itok=rjM73Gxz) 

 



 

 

   [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

 ](/resource/extraordinary-commission-virtual-tour-2) 

   ![Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students (AFRO) March in Support of an Afro-American Studies Department](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extraordinarycommission007.jpg?itok=BvkJNLWb) 

 



 

 

   [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

 ](/resource/extraordinary-commission-virtual-tour-3) 

   ![Harvard Yearbook](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extraordinarycommission004.jpg?itok=xUEbQEG-) 

 



 

 

   [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

 ](/resource/extraordinary-commission-virtual-tour-4) 

   ![Harvard Students March in Support of Black Studies](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extraordinarycommission015.jpg?itok=hdFagcCh) 

 



 

 

   [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

 ](/resource/extraordinary-commission-virtual-tour-5) 

   ![Newsweek and Harvard Magazine](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extraordinarycommission005.jpg?itok=cZy5DIgX) 

 



 

 

   [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

 ](/resource/extraordinary-commission-virtual-tour-6) 

   ![Harvard Yearbook, Time Magazine, and Ramparts](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extraordinarycommission003.jpg?itok=dLUKWPKX) 

 



 

 

   [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

 ](/resource/extraordinary-commission-virtual-tour-7) 

   ![Portrait of Lee S. Smith ’69, Student Activist and Managing Editor for the Harvard Yearbook](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extraordinarycommission012.jpg?itok=KnkC-he-) 

 



 

 

   [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

 ](/resource/extraordinary-commission-virtual-tour-8) 

   ![“Stop Racism, End the War”](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extraordinarycommission006.jpg?itok=cGNb1uYh) 

 



 

 

   [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

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   ![Eileen J. Southern (1920-2002)](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extraordinarycommission008.jpg?itok=K5POx7Df) 

 



 

 

   [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

 ](/resource/extraordinary-commission-virtual-tour-10) 

   ![Exhibition documentation of “The Extraordinary Commission: Student Activism and the Birth of Afro-American Studies at Harvard”](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extraordinarycommission001.jpg?itok=O8GuEAVu) 

 



 

 

   [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

 ](/resource/extraordinary-commission-virtual-tour-11) 

   ![Harvard Student March in Support of Black Studies](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extaordinarycommission015.jpg?itok=d7qQ8Iyi) 

 



 

 

   [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

 ](/resource/extraordinary-commission-virtual-tour-12) 

   ![Harvard Stadium Meeting](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extraordinarycommission013.jpg?itok=yX6yBVpx) 

 



 

 

   [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

 ](/resource/extraordinary-commission-virtual-tour-13) 

   ![Harvard Student Takeover of University Hall](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extaordinarycommission017.jpg?itok=04JzggHl) 

 



 

 

   [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

 ](/resource/extraordinary-commission-virtual-tour-14) 

   ![Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students (AFRO) Meeting with Harvard Faculty](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extaordinarycommission016.jpg?itok=vlCyU1S7) 

 



 

 

   [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

 ](/resource/extraordinary-commission-virtual-tour-15) 

   ![Collection of images documenting several protests organized by the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students (AFRO)](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extraordinarycommission002.jpg?itok=DUPHOHYU) 

 



 

 

   [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

 ](/resource/extraordinary-commission-virtual-tour-0) 

   ![Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students (AFRO) Meeting with Civil Rights Activist Whitney Young, Jr. (1921-1971)](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extraordinarycommission009.jpg?itok=e5TQ910u) 

 



 

 

   [### 'The Extraordinary Commission' Virtual Tour

 ](/resource/extraordinary-commission-virtual-tour) 

   ![State Police Attack Student Activists in Harvard Yard](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/extaordinarycommission019.jpg?itok=YX9VI5uG) 

 



 

 

  

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