The report granted the students most of their demands.

As a result of the report, the Faculty overwhelmingly approved of a cultural center for Black students, and the University began to offer more classes in Afro-American studies.

But many students were outraged because the report diluted their biggest demand: the call for an Afro-Am department. The report called only for the establishment of a committee on Afro-Am, but students held out for a formal department.

Several days after SDS members took over University Hall, the Faculty acceded to student demands. Although only one Black student participated in the takeover, the threat of another student uprising motivated the Faculty to give Afro-Am department status.

"I don't think the faculty gave a damn in 1969 about the creation of an Afro-Am department," Daniels says.

A Continuing Struggle

While graduates say progress has been made, they and current Black students say the issue are still germane.

"I think significant progress has been made," Hamilton says, "but you want the University to have an ongoing commitment and involvement."

And Daniels agrees that "There still needs to be major work in terms of recruitment of [Black] faculty."

Alvin L. Bragg Jr. '95, president of the BSA, says the University must hire more Black faculty in areas other than Afro-American Studies.

Daniels says he believes that there is a dearth of Black faculty because "aside from implicit racial and chauvinist considerations, you're talking about power and status....That the final analysis."

Bragg says current Black students share some of the same problems of their predecessors. In Particular, the Black community at Harvard is fragmented, he says, and there remains a burden on Blacks to be the integrating force on campus.

Also, Bragg says Black students must contend with charges that they are at the College because of affirmative action.

The fragmentation of Black students is exacerbated by the view of Blacks as a monolithic community, Hamilton says. That view was part of what AAAAS was fighting, he says.

Problems From Within