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...photographer who snapped the iconic picture of a couple kissing on V-J Day, held a photo shoot of four Harvard students—two white, two black—dressed in Minuteman costumes at the locations of the first battles of the Revolutionary War. Pressman called it ??the second shot heard ??round the world.?...
...??We were constantly producing all these things that were trying to create the illusion that there was this groundswell of support,?? Pressman said...
...fact, even a handful of administrators were sympathizers. Anthony ??Tony” W. Robbins ??62, one of the models for the Life Magazine photoshoot, said he remembered meeting with Dean of the College John U. Monro ??34 about the legal implications of the pickets...
...??After being read the riot act by the Dean, I asked in the most mild and friendly way what he would do,?? Robbins said. ??He said without missing a beat, ??I’d go ahead and run the protest.???...
EPIC also provided ??a kind of basic training” for those interested in social justice, according to Pressman. Many of the most active EPIC members were involved in later Civil Rights-era events—including the 1964 Freedom Summer—and other movements such as anti-Vietnam War protests. And the legacy of this early student movement, both at Harvard and around the country, provided a framework for the heyday of student engagement...