Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harrison says students wanted a department--rather than a committee--because it could hire its own professors and make course decisions. In addition, the students wanted to create an activist department that would grant them a measure of control over their education, he says...
...origins certainly did make life difficult for the department in the beginning. There definitely was the desire that an Afro-American Department should be much more activist oriented than other departments," says Harrison. "That has very clearly been resolved in favor of a more traditional conception of an academically oriented department...
...national network contributed to the widespread effect of the 1968 and 1969 student protests. Activist leaders watched events on other campuses, learning new tactics and drawing strength from the others' efforts...
...first time that town and gown ever came together on issues," recalls City Councillor Saundra Graham, at the time a community activist in the Peace and Freedom Party. "We just felt that [Harvard students] were all these rich, white students who didn't care about social issues...
Sullivan says the climate of violence was primarily the result of activist groups from outside the city. Radical fringes of SDS, such as the Weathermen, converged on Cambridge in the late 1960s, as wave after wave of protest and revolt hit the universities...