Word: anti-vietnam
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...their part, the protesters are also looking to history as they continue their occupation. In speeches over the weekend, protesters and their supporters repeatedly linked the Living Wage Campaign to past activism like the Civil Rights Movement and anti-Vietnam War protests. Some protesters inside the building are even claiming they are the first people to "occupy" Mass. Hall since Harvard opened the dorm to revolutionary troops...
This is a move that hasn't been seen on campus for at least a decade, says former Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Students targeted the University's highest decision-making body in the anti-Vietnam campaign of 1969, and again in an extended campaign against investment in apartheid South Africa in the 1980s...
Epps points to the anti-Vietnam "crisis" in 1969, where students, claiming that Harvard was complicit in the war, protested the presence of ROTC on campus...
DIED. JAMES A. RHODES, 91, Ohio's longest-serving Governor, who in May 1970 dispatched the National Guard to Kent State University to quell anti-Vietnam protests; in Columbus, Ohio. In Rhodes' 16-year tenure, Ohio's economy and public university system flourished, but history will always note the fateful May afternoon when soldiers killed four students and injured nine...
...life, marked with grave personal, artistic and political decisions. Rich's early poetry, though elegant, is politically lackluster, drawing thematically and stylistically on the works of poets like Yeats, Frost and Auden. Her "angrier" later works emerged from a vibrant background of marriage, family, 1960's civil rights activism, anti-Vietnam War protests, an emergent women's movement and personal decisions about sexuality and liberation...