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

 
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   ![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) 

 
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   ![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) 

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

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

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

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

 
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   ![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) 

 
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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) 

 
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   ![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) 

 
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   ![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) 

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

 
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   ![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-) 

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

 
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   ![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) 

 
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   ![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) 

 
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   ![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) 

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

 
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   ![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) 

 
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   ![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)