The Black Students Association (BSA) today is sponsoring the third annual Afro-American Studies Day to demonstrate its commitment to a strong Afro-American department and to encourage student involvement in the BSA's Committee to Strengthen Afro-American Studies, BSA representatives said yesterday.

The representatives said they expect more than 200 students to attend the event which will feature speeches from two Black professors and a Black alumnus of the Afro-Am department.

Ewart Guineier, professor of Afro-American Studies Emeritus and the department's first chairman, will speak on the legitimacy of Black studies as an academic field.

"The Third World has made important contributions to American society and the history of Blacks should concern everybody, Aaron Estis '80, the alumnus speaker, said yesterday.

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Marcia Darling, professor of Black studies at Wellesley College, will talk about her personal struggles against racism, and threats of violence as a Black woman professor, Georgia Hill '82, a BSA member, said yesterday.

The BSA has sponsored Afro-American Studies Day since 1979 when students protested the University's attempts to convert the department into a committee.