Black students at the University of Wisconsin? Madison reacted to the murder of Dr. King by orchestrating a series of strikes intended to force the university?s administration to institute a program of study about African Americans. A year later, in April 1969, then UW Chancellor Edwin Young appointed a steering committee for what would become the Department of Afro-American Studies, which, after being approved, offered its first classes in the Fall of 1970.
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