Word: marches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This piece appeared first in the CRIMSON four days after the March on the Pentagon in 1967. Many people called the March on the Pentagon a turning point in War Protest. Many people later called Lerner's article one of the reasons why, at Harvard, three hundred demonstrators turned up to lock a Dow Chemical Corporation representative in a room for seven hours...
Paranoia had already set in. Once inside the terminal, two women came up to me and apologetically asked me if I were a "-Hippy" and if I were going to the March. There was nothing to say. At the taxi stand marchers recognized each other with few words. The cabby who took me and four other marchers to the Lincoln Memorial questioned us in a non-committal attitude about the planned activities for the day. But when we reached the Mcmorial, his neutrality disappeared and he tripled the fare. This kind of harassment was reported by many of the marchers...
...hour that the march was to begin drew near, the picnic-like atmosphere began to fade and people congregated around banners or famous anti-war personalities. Many of the more militant groups-including contingents from the Communist Party, Progressive Labor, a group of NLF sympathizers, and Students for a Democratic Society-moved toward the head of the Refleeting Pool so that they could be close to the front of the parade. Ironically, they ended up in what had been the segment of the march designated for "religious groups." The tactics were clear. The militants had heard that authorities planned...
PRESIDENT NIXON has given the American people another lesson in the misuse of power. In a series of mighty insinuations, well-orchestrated for press impact, the Administration has tried to obscure the issue behind Saturday's march on Washington by pounding on the themes of violence and ?anarchy. Individuals can help counter this insidious campaign by going to Washington themselves and making the march a huge, peaceful demonstration of indignation and anger over what has become " Nixon...
Nixon began by imposing a gratuitous restriction on the course of the march, refusing to permit the protestors to travel up Pennsylvania. Avenue and so refusing them a symbolic exposure to the White House...