Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...activists, Graham found an unexpected ally. When students started organizing to protest University policies, she began to talk to them, trying to find a common ground. When the takeover began, she actively supported it, helping to feed the students camped out in the building...
Community activists like Graham began to openly challenge Harvard. In 1970 Graham staged an open attack on the University's most sacred tradition--the annual Commencement Exercises. With the aid of students, several community activists walked on stage and demanded to meet with President Nathan M. Pusey '28 and the Harvard Corporation...
...were in about the fifth row from the front," Graham says. "That gave us the attention. Harvard, the Ivy league, the most prestigious college--that makes good headlines...
Nonetheless, Graham says that the spirit of unity created in 1969 was short-lived. She attributes it to a change in the type of student admitted to Harvard in the early 1970s...
...They were conservative, they were white males, and they were Republican," says Graham...