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...activity on their behalf is. What is there about this year that has made it so fruitful for the political conscience of American undergraduates? Without doubt many factors are involved: the end of the atmosphere of terror that pervaded the McCarthy era, the particularly dramatic circumstances of Chessman??€™s ninth stay of execution, the appearance of a determined student Negro leadership n the Atlanta sit-in crisis, the fact of an election year. But there might be an underlying explanation for the sudden change in climate which has vastly increased the scope of active protest: that nebulous phenomenon...

Author: By Jonathan R. Walton | Title: Sit in and Be Counted | 4/20/1960 | See Source »

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