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...spring 1979, students engaged in campus-wide rallies and a boycott of classes to protest investments in South Africa. Faculty members, meanwhile, put forth a strong effort to influence Harvard’s investments, debating the issue in two full meetings and writing an open letter urging the University to participate in anti-apartheid efforts. And after about a decade of unrest and debate, by the 1980s, the Corporation had gradually divested from South Africa...
...years after the Af-Am department was formed in 1969, the University and the department conflicted over its budget and tenuring of its professors. In early April, representatives from the Black Students Association (BSA), the SASC and several other student groups bound together and called for a boycott of classes to bolster the Af-Am department...
...move was widely perceived as indicating the group’s intent to create a cohesive unit strong enough to weather an NCAA boycott upon a break of any sort with the governing body, despite the pledge of the organization’s Eastern director not to bring any pressure and to allow Ivy programs to continue to compete against member schools...
...black magazine Jet ran photos of his ruined face, and by the time an all-white jury acquitted Bryant's husband Roy and his half brother J.W. Milam in a sham trial, Till's death was a touchstone for black America, fueling support for the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott that same year. Whites were slower on the uptake, prompting a young singer named Bob Dylan to warn in 1963, "If you can't speak out against this kind of thing, a crime that's so unjust/Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt, your mind is filled with dust...
...calls to boycott his films haven't gained traction, but with his box-office draw in decline lately, it might be hard to tell if one was going...