The history of Temple University’s Africology and African American Studies Department

4/14/23

two men wearing suits sitting at a desk.

Odeyo Ayaga (right), a professor, inside Temple University’s Afro-Asian Institute, the name of the university’s first African American studies department.

Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia.

More than 50 years ago, Temple students flooded the North Philadelphia roads of Broad Street for hours to demand that the university be more responsive to African

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