Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Impenitent Losers. In this reassessment of the period after Appomattox, Kenneth Stampp, professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, calls the Southern version dead wrong. He is only one of dozens of contemporary historians who have recently undertaken to reconstruct the Reconstruction. Of these revisionists, Stampp is easily the most provocative. His proposition is that the impenitent postwar South set to work at once to restore the very order that it had supposedly yielded in defeat. The idea was to negate the war's outcome...
...terms of these goals the demonstration was a success. The crowd which gathered, from as far away as Mississippi, Berkeley and Minnesota, far exceeded the private expectations of SDS leaders. While news coverage was , and probably did not equal that accorded the Tocsin demonstration, the figures alone are impressive...
...issue on campuses is the use of alumni money. At Berkeley the Daily Californian published a threat by a prominent alumnus to withhold a $2 million donation unless "the University gets rid of those Commie professors." The same alumnus, according to the paper, is responsible for the university's ban on certain controversial speakers recently...
...against monopoly campus newspapers. At Rice it only takes the form of a letter from a sorority girl chiding the Thresher for not publishing anything about sororities. But the issue reaches larger proportions eleswhere. At Wisconsin, a Campus Newspaper Student Committee is investigating inequities in the Wisconsin Cardinal; at Berkeley an organization called Students for University Truth purchases space in the Daily Californian for vehement tirades against the newspaper...
...another respect, the major thrust of the new generation's activity is in a common direction. Academic freedom, political freedom, Free Speech Movement, Freedom Now: all the multifaced, heterogeneous campus agitation ultimately returns to civil rights and to Berkeley. Under the banner of "Freedom," students across the country are experiencing a political renaissance...