Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bonnie Raitt '72. This Grammy-winning country and blues singer had plenty to talk about when she came to campus in May to accept the fifth-annual Harvard Arts First Medal. "I just cannot believe that a rock 'n' rollin', blues singing, rowdy-mouthed political activist would be standing up here at Harvard," she told the crowd...
...academic and an activist, the issues that have been important to me are all the First Amendment issues," she says. The ACLU is currently involved in a Supreme Court case against U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno involving Internet censorship...
...student may register to vote the day he moves into Pennypacker 43, if he can show that he is living there now," said John Brode, an activist with the Cambridge Committee for Voter Registration (CCVR). CCVR distributed 60,000 flyers that summer, informing young people of their voters' rights...
Bonnie E. Blustein '72, a former SDS member who still remains a Progressive Labor Party (PLP) activist and a self-described active Communist, says that her class was known as the "three strikes and you're out" class because of the suspensions some students incurred as a result of their involvement in multiple campus strikes...
...also had the great pleasure of having dinner almost nightly for a semester with Professor Ewart Guinier. He was the first chair of Afro-American studies at Harvard. He was an imposing figure, as handsome as he was intelligent. A lawyer and a political activist, he told me stories of the Harlem Renaissance, post-Depression governmental policies and why Harvard could not be trusted. Before the end of his term as chair, he would distribute a booklet he edited entitled "Unfair Harvard," wherein he chronicled the sorry saga of minimal commitment to African-American studies. Harvard's administration should award...