Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white Americans were moved by conscience and events to seek means of cementing racial amity rather than further polarize black and white animosities. Some proposed "neighbor-to-neighbor" visiting programs to ease psychological prejudices. Universities and colleges from Massachusetts to Oregon instituted Martin Luther King scholarships for black students; Berkeley and Stanford pledged to double their minority-group enrollment by 1969, and more than 30 Stanford professors agreed to donate 10% of their salaries to a King fund. A group of San Franciscans moved to rename the Bay Bridge for King, reasoning that "he himself spanned the gap between black...
Sessions previously held teaching posts at Princeton, Smith, and the University of California at Berkeley. He succeeds Jorge Luis Borges...
...them new nations. Almost by definition, an underdeveloped country is an undercapitalized country. Struggling to advance from muscle power to the machine, its people anxiously eye their smokeless horizons in search of capital to build factories, hire managers and export young men to universities from Göttingen to Berkeley. They cast an envious glance at such cities as San Juan and Teheran, which have risen from squalor to considerable splendor in less than a generation. The modern influences of communications-tourists, transistor radios, Hollywood films, advertisements-have carried to every mud hovel in the world the idea that cash...
...John Pairman Brown, a West Coast underground activist and professor at Berkeley's Episcopal Church Divinity School, foresees the day when the underground will come completely out in the open, as a unified new grouping to further its aims. Ultimately, Brown concludes in the manifesto, "we intend to surface as a nucleus of Church union and renewal, in the hope that what we represent will melt the denominations from the bottom...
...Steadily signing up more customers, marginal as they may be, Liberation is trying to appeal to Black Power papers and underground high school sheets as well. Eventually, it plans to convert from a mail to a wire service. Its telex machine already links Washington to New York. Detroit and Berkeley...