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4 AFRO-AMERICAN SOCIETY DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA ond On July 11, 1968, « source advised the Afro-American Society (AAS) was founded at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, by black students at the university to promote the study and history of Afro-American cuiture. . On October 29, 1968, «a second source advised that the AAS was chartered as an official Duke University student organization during the spring of 1968. and membership consisted of about 85 black students, mostly undergraduate, constituting about 80 percent of the black student population. The AAS had met with the Duke administration to discuss points of interest relating to the status of black students at Duke University, On February 13, 1969, a third scurce advised the AAS during the first week in February had spornsered a black festival at Duke including the appearance of DICK GREGORY and other “speakers. On February 13, 1969, 2pproxim>ately 30 representatives of AAS seized the Administration Building of Duke University. They voluntarily abandoned it about 5:55 p.m., February 13, 1969, when a police force was en route te evacuste them. On February 15, 1969, this source reported continued negotiations between the AAS and the university administration concerning disposition of AAS demands, particularly with reference to the establishment of an Afro-American Studies Department. On March 20, 1969, 2 fourth source advised 47 student representatives of the AAS on March 19, 1969, pleaded nolo contendere to charges arising from the seizure of the Admini- stration Building February 13, 1969, and were sentenced by a Duke University hearing board to suspension for one year, suspended, and placed on probation for one year. sc