Word: amherst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make money--a lot of money. They do not have the freedom of the 1960s, when students were able to live on the fringes of the economy," says former Black Power leader Julius Lester, a professor of Judaic studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst...
Goldstein successfully employed the tactic ofputting the object of a protest on trial in hisdefense of Abby Hoffman and Amy Carter. Hoffmanand Carter were arrested during a demonstrationagainst CIA recruiting at UMass-Amherst...
Michael Thelwell, professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachussetts-Amherst, says he has noted a recent change in student activism on campus...
...UMass-Amherst in February, students who occupied the New Africa House for six days to protest a racial attack on campus told reporters, "We're not revolutionaries. We're reasonable people with reasonable demands who intend to be taken seriously...
...quietly expanding scope of American Islam has become evident only as the result of new research. At a symposium at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Carol Stone, a doctoral student at Indiana University, estimated that there are 4,644,000 U.S. Muslims, with the largest concentration in California. The large majority of U.S. adherents are not affiliated with a mosque, but this is not for lack of opportunity. UMASS Historian Yvonne Haddad, who organized the Amherst sessions, counts more than 600 Islamic centers across...