Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early 1960s, graduate students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison established the Teaching Assistant Association...
...1960s brought unprecedented, positive change to this nation. The Civil Rights Movement legitimized concerns of millions of people to whom the Constitution and the Bill of Rights had become a sad joke. The anti-war movement contributed to the downfall of a President whose foreign policy could not be supported by the electorate...
...this effort is intended to reproduce the campus upheavals of 1969 which destroyed the presidency of Nathan Pusey and won Harvard national condemnation. But if the protests of recent years have proved anything, they have showed that today's activists have nothing like the fervor, determination or devotion those 1960s men and women did. The protesters of the 1980s seem too fascinated by calculated war plans and too worried by arrest to follow in the footsteps of their predecessors...
...person, Wilson seems as gentle and contemplative as his plays. He frets about a "whole generation ((of black youths)) that has not learned to read," but offers neither sweeping solutions nor invective. He was not always so mellow. Drawn to the Black Power movement in the 1960s, he helped found a volunteer troupe in his native Pittsburgh that mounted the incendiary works of LeRoi Jones. "I tried to write myself, but I wasn't any good at dialogue," he says -- a surprising judgment for a playwright whose characters speak with color and dialectal authenticity. Within a few years Wilson...
Many professors who grew up on the turbulent campuses of the 1960s now challenge the notion that any particular book should be required. They point out that classic literature courses have ignored books not written by white males. Says Cornell Professor Henry Gates, architect of a new 30-volume anthology of pre-1910 works by black women: "The center of power has shifted within traditional ((studies)) as a result of the growing presence of women, blacks and people of color." Duke's Barbara Hernnstein Smith, president of the influential Modern Language Association, notes approvingly that "writings by women and black...