Word: campus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Draft Union, an autonomous organization sponsored by SDS, has begun anti-draft organizing on campus. If successful at Harvard, the Union could easily spread to other universities across the country. But the problems it faces during the take-off stage are no less formidable than its potential...
...officials charged the students with starting the spasm of gunfire, the fact that no fire-arms could be found among the students belied their accusation. That two of the dead and scores of the wounded were shot in the back added telling footnotes to the incident. The presence on campus of SNCC organizer Cleveland Sellers gave South Carolina Governor Robert E. McNair the excuse he needed for the police action...
Violence around Negro campuses is nothing new. Southern white police have always held a special contempt for Negro college students. As evidenced last year on many black campuses--the most notable being Fiske, Tennessee State, and Texas Southern--police have used appalling force to squelch black student activism. Even recently police have encountered little resistance from Negro college administrators who have seemed embarrassed by their students' actions. Their attitude has been more to condemn student political activity moving into the neighboring community than be outraged at subsequent police invasions of the campus...
...police's hostility toward the Negro college is linked to their resentment of the increasingly progressive--often radical--role it plays in Southern, black political activism. Governor McNair's condemnation of the violence was typical of earlier Southern white responses to the changing mood of the Negro campus. He was quick in summarily denouncing the influence of Black Power advocates...
Whether students at black colleges are Black Power advocates or not, there is increasing resentment among growing numbers of students about the compromising attitudes of Negro administrators and paternalistic white trustees. The Negro college campus has been traditionally conservative. Coupled with the growth of greater militancy in the civil rights movement, this has led many students to look beyond their campus to the black community as their primary area of concern. With black colleges often situated near or within predominantly Negro communities, this combination, at least in the eyes of Southern police, is volatile and threatening...