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In February, San Francisco State University hired sociologist Nathan Hare, who coordinated the first study of African American culture and history. Teaching on racism and cultures.

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A few months after the studies began to be coordinated Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in a Motel on a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was a huge event that greatly effected the lives of maybe African Americans all around.

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The African American Studies Committee successfully created two for-credit courses in African American studies at VCU in 1969. African American studies appeared in the VCU Bulletin under interdisciplinary courses.

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A year later in January, Two African American students; Camilla Anita Brooks from Mathews, Virginia and Franklin Mckie from Augusta, Georgia earned M.S Statistics. Being the first to surpass in there studies. (Photo of Franklin Mckie)

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Historian Ibram Kendi, "nearly 1,000 colleges had organized Black Studies courses, programs, or departments."

This ushered in a new phase for the discipline, with the establishment of journals, the hiring of faculty, and an increase in scholarship.

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The department graduates its first class of concentrators in AfroAmerican studies; they number fourteen.

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In 2010, Arizona lawmakers banned courses that "promote resentment toward a race or class of people" or "advocate ethnic solidarity." The law led to its own backlash, however, sparking a growing movement to institute ethnic studies classes in K-12 schools nationwide.

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Many African American studies departments struggle to attain funding and are called upon to perform diversity and inclusion work on campus, especially after the brutality of killing George Floyd

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A 2021 study found that ninth-graders who took an ethnic studies course were more likely to graduate from high school and remain engaged in their educational experience. Though generations of controversy, advocates say, African American and ethnic studies are here to stay.

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On campuses across the United States, African American Studies was dying. This was because the lack of participation. This was also because they were going to ban African American studies in some states.

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Then the African American Studies started to come back. Offering opportunities to learn about the importance of its studies. To learn more about our past and academic achievements over the years.