Word: helper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gordon, a black journeyman painter, said that he had come to Harvard as a qualified painter and had been hired as a helper. "I spent eight hours a day doing exactly the same work as the painters," he said...
...rally centered mainly around the painters' helper issue. John Carol and Sonny Gordon, two Harvard painters, claimed that the painters' helpers category had been set up to hire black workers at lower wages...
Over in Simcoe, Ont., a young butcher's helper and part-time bass-guitar player named Rick Danko felt a similar urge. Driving up to his parents' home one evening in a friend's Cadillac, he cried out: "I've got to leave tonight; it's now or never!" He borrowed a coat, packed and was gone. One by one, Garth Hudson in London, Ont., Richard Manuel in Stratford, Ont., and Levon Helm, down on a bare subsistence farm in Marvell, Ark. (pop. 1,200), were making similar plans. To Helm, it was especially urgent. "You get out of school...
...obstructed on November 19 because of his well-known views on American diplomatic history. He was obstructed, perhaps unwisely, because he had identified himself with the University's racist employment policies by speaking at a news conference on November 11 with the University Personnel Director to "explain" the painters' helper issue. No classes are taught in University Hall, the Faculty Club, or the Gund Hall construction site...
...charged only 25 of the students with these crimes. And in May's opinion, in fact, some of the charged students were guilty of more than chanting and linking arms, some of lesser offenses. A few including the chairmen of SDS and the leaders of the painters' helper campaign, were charged with all counts-from "entering the Office of the Dean of Harvard College without invitation" to "intervening with...the freedom of movement of the Dean of Harvard College by bodily resisting his efforts to depart from his office." Others were charged with lesser counts; many were not charged...