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DIED. HARRY HAY, 90, pioneering gay activist who founded the Mattachine Society, the first support network for homosexuals; in San Francisco. At a time when few men or women dared to identify themselves publicly as homosexual, Hay pioneered the notion that the group was a minority facing prejudice and entitled to equal rights. An ardent American communist, he authored the gay-rights movement's first political manifesto, later known as The Call...
...fight is being led not by locals who grew up with the marble industry, but by "flatlanders"--newcomers from the cities--who don't want their sight lines or property values disturbed. "No one wants the Vermont marble industry to go away," says Smith, 45, a full-time activist and former artist. "But Omya is the wrong fit for Danby...
...activist arm of the Environmental Action Committee, Harvard’s umbrella environmental organization, the SSC is in general most concerned with off-campus issues...
Addressing the primary purpose of his speech, he spoke of civil right activist Higginbotham as one who had not allow social taboos to stem his activism...
Strange days are exactly what found the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1972 during their first year in the spring of 1969. On April 9, 1969, after a year of political turmoil and rising tensions between administrators and students nationwide, members of the Harvard chapter of the activist group Students for Democratic Society (SDS) took over University Hall. Late that night, University Hall was set upon by state troopers and the Cambridge police, who put an end to the occupation. The reverberations from the takeover are still felt on campus today, in ways ranging from the riot-proof design of Canaday...