Word: anti-vietnam
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...stint as The Harvard Summer News during World War II, the paper came of age, during the '50's with reasonably comprehensive coverage of the McCarthyiteonslaught on academic freedom. But the late '60's were when the growing Crimson began to bristle with the emotion and turmoil of the anti-Vietnam War movement (although its editorial position, as the book shows, wavered back and forth on the issue before climaxing with a full-blown statement of support for the National Liberation Front in October 1969). And as the politics and the society shifted over the decade, its changes, to whatever...
Speaking at the first Boston anti-draft rally this school year, veterans of the anti-Vietnam War movement warned the crowd that only continued protest could stop the "madness" of nuclear war. They also said this summer's registration set the stage for U.S. military intervention around the world...
During the 1970s, the fight for women's rights took its place alongside the civil rights movement, anti-Vietnam protests, and the drive for political reform as one of the grand upheavals of our time. Women won a Supreme Court decision affirming their right to abortion, entered the work force in ever-increasing numbers, established day-care centers to facilitate raising children while pursuing careers, forayed into the political arena, and made headway in changing America's century-old perceptions of the woman's "proper role...
Among those who later climbed over the main gate and were arrested by police were anti-Vietnam War activists Jerry Rubin and David Dellinger...
...bill makes physical interference with "federal government functions" a felony. Virtually any kind of civil rights or peace demonstration could at any moment by prohibited under this provision. Similarly, a vague redefinition of sabotage as anything that interferes with public transit could have jailed thousands of anti-Vietnam war demonstrators...