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...number of deaths and genetic mutations that could be expected over generations. Sakharov pleaded with Khrushchev to discontinue bomb testing, and wept in "unbearable bitterness, shame and humiliation" when his urgings to the leaders of the country he had helped to make a superpower were rebuffed. By the 1960s, Sakharov was both an oft-decorated Hero of the Soviet Union and an increasingly astute figure politically, moving "toward purer science and toward the highly impure world of social activism." He became an outspoken critic of repression, an intervener on behalf of dissidents and a force within the nascent Soviet human...
During the late 1960s, faculty interest in University governance surged with the growth of activism on campus...
Nathan M. Pusey ’28, Harvard’s 24th president, dies at the age of 94. Serving during the 1950s and 1960s, his administration led the University’s first major fundraising campaign and also focused on undergraduate education. His presidency ended in controversy as a result of the 1969 bust of a University Hall takeover...
African-American studies was born out of the activism of the late 1960s...
Roughly 400 colleges and universities nationwide offer African-American studies, according to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. Many of these departments were also formed out of student protest in the late 1960s...