Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suggestion of a group of Boston-area China scholars, many seniors wore white armbands over their black Commencement robes to express solidarity with China's young dissenters...
...exercises were devoted to inducting the final members of the Class of '89 elected to Phi Beta Kappa into the society. The group included 64 men elected to the Alpha chapter and 64 women to the Iota chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
...escalated the next day, however, when several Lampoon initiates began goose-stepping down Mass. Ave., carrying the club banner in a march for independence. Councillor Michael A. Sullivan saw the group marching and asked whether they had a protest permit. When the marchers answered that they hadn't, Sullivan attempted to confiscate the Lampoon banner from them...
...Haliwa-Sapani--who have Black, Native American and European ancestors--were classified as mulatto in the early 19th century, but after the Civil War "the social significance of being mulatto was taken away," and the kinship group began to be classified as Black, McClain said...
McClain--whose ancestors include Irish, Native Americans and Blacks--travelled to North Carolina twice to study the group, and she may return for a more extended visit if she chooses to write a doctoral dissertation on them, she said...