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Harvard in the 1960s was consumed by radical liberalism, the result of the extension of the civil rights movement and protests against the Vietnam War. There was also the opposition, many members of which scoffed at the demonstrators' pretensions and lamented their anti-patriotism...
...thesis focuses on several essays and a novel, Another Country, that Baldwin wrote after returning to the United States from Paris in the 1950s and 1960s. The thesis examines what it means to be American in the context of Baldwin's personal tensions about national identity...
...Activism by minority students and ethnic organizations rose significantly this year. But unlike in the late 1960s, students of many backgrounds took on a range of unrelated causes. And their voices were raised less often against the University establishment and more against forces in the wider world...
...money for the original Jordan buildings was given to Radcliffe in the late 1950s and early 1960s in a series of gifts by Susan M. Hilles--the same donor who gave the funds for Hilles Library. Hilles gave several donations of $100,000 to Radcliffe "for cooperative housing" over the course of a few years, until the College had enough money to start construction...
Rudenstine's predecessor, Derek C. Bok, arrived at a campus shaken by the turmoil of the 1960s. He stayed two decades, and by the time he left, the University needed to change its style of leadership...