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

Curated by Dell M. Hamilton

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

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

Harvard Yearbook, Time Magazine, and Ramparts

Harvard Yearbook

Newsweek and Harvard Magazine

“Stop Racism, End the War”

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

Eileen J. Southern (1920-2002)

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

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

Harvard Stadium Rally

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

Harvard Stadium Meeting

Harvard Students March in Support of Black Studies

Harvard Student March in Support of Black Studies

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

Harvard Student Takeover of University Hall

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

State Police Attack Student Activists in Harvard Yard

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