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...There seemed to be a lot of correlation that was going on between all the movements," says Alice K. Wolf, Cambridge mayor from 1990 to 1992. "The activist students [came] into contact with, and sympathized with, some of the activists in the community...
Black scholars did exist in the country in 1969--they just didn't want to come to Harvard, says former student activist Robert L. Hall...
Hamilton says the activist efforts of Black students had a clear focus. At the center of these efforts was a set of concrete demands...
Despite their distinct agendas, some Black students sought support from activist groups that were primarily white. The African and Afro-American Association of Students (AAAAS), the forerunner of the Black Student's Association (BSA), appealed for help from the predominantly white Students for a Democratic Society...
...tobacco lobby to try to influence Congress, for the first time members of the antismoking Congressional Task Force on Tobacco and Health outnumber pro-tobacco House members, 58 to 42. "The tobacco industry, while still a powerful force, has lost its virtual stranglehold on Congress," says antismoking activist John Banzhaf, executive director of Action on Smoking and Health...