{"value"=>"<p>subseries encompasses the following categories: affirmative action, efforts to develop an Afro-American studies library, departmental mailings, annual reports and correspondence with the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, budget and expenditures, personnel files, intra-departmental memoranda, and agenda and minutes of departmental meetings. Budget and Expenditure files are arranged chronologically and consist of annual budgetary projections and proposals, and correspondence with deans Ford and Rosovsky and the Harvard financial office. Personnel files in this subseries are mainly letters of inquiry with attachments dating from 1969 to 1971. They document efforts by the Standing Committee, the Search Committee on Afro-American Studies and the chairman of the department to recruit qualified instructors, teaching fellows, research assistants and consultants. Taken as a whole, these files reflect the interdisciplinary character of Afro-American studies: applicants came from the varied fields of literature, sociology, history and science.</p>"}