Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 2500 students at the University of California at Berkeley ended their marathon sit-down last night, as President Clark Kerr announced that the University would negotiate their demands next Monday...
More than 250 Berkeley police and Alameda County sheriff's deputies were present as student leaders mounted the patrol car to announce the settlement...
More than 2500 students sat down in the Student Union Plaza at the University of California at Berkeley yesterday afternoon to prevent a university police car from arresting the leader of an ad hoc committee protesting recent university restrictions of campus politics...
...trouble started when the dean of students banned organizations from soliciting membership and funds at outdoor tables on campus. The full spectrum of Berkeley's political make-up, from Goldwaterites to Socialists, rallied together, and Wednesday several groups set up tables in deliberate defiance of the dean's edict...
...instead of moving, the crowd of students swelled to 2500. Another leader of the protest, Mario Savio, of Berkeley Friends of SNCC, tried to address the students, but couldn't be heard. So he removed his shoes and climbed stop the police car. Savio, whom the San Francisco Chronicle described in its afternoon edition as a "silver-tongued orator," urged the crowd to stay until all their demands were...