Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign was also plagued by internal dissent. Resurrection City, heavily black, sprouted some white ghettos, including one populated by Appalachian mountain folk and another by hippies who dubbed their enclave "Diggerville" and festooned their shelters with gaily colored cloth and psychedelic banners. There was an angry flare-up over the black monopoly on policymaking. "Black militants have taken over, and nobody else gets a chance to talk," protested Reies Lopez Tijerina, leader of a group of 200 Mexican-Americans quartered at the private Hawthorne School about a mile from the shantytown. He complained that brown, red and white Americans were...
...This quite remarkable spring," says John Kenneth Galbraith, "will possibly go down as the most contentious since 1848. We are watching a worldwide revolutionary movement." Indeed, the seeds of dissent seem to be sprouting everywhere and almost simultaneously. West German students riot against a democratic coalition government while their Spanish counterparts make Francisco Franco's twilight years uneasy. Harold Wilson's government bobs precariously in a sea of discontent, while in parts of Africa the old tribalism engulfs the new nationalism. In Czechoslovakia, having overturned one of the most obdurate Stalinist regimes to survive in Eastern Europe, libertarian...
COLES: I've had reservations about what I said afterwards, not because I disagreed with anything I said, but because I know there are people who will use what I said irrelevantly to try to crush legitimate dissent on the part of students who want to be allied with the poor, but who I am afraid are not allied with them--not allied with them because they have yet to understand the terrible ambiguities that poor people face living in America today, whether they be black or white...
...From Protest to Resistance." Three advocates of dissent - Mario Savio, who led the Free Speech Movement at the University of California in Berkeley, Black Power Pusher Stokely Carmichael, and David Harris, a full-time antidraft resistance worker-have their say in a program about the new radicalism...
...Broadway HAIR. Now that the hippie notion is fading away, a slickly packaged version of hippiedom has swung onto Broadway. The songs rock, the expletives explode and the energetic cast exuberates-but so quickly does U.S. society shift that the play's style of dissent is already dated. Director Tom O'Horgan achieves startling production effects even though distraction is certainly no substitute for destination...