Word: marcheses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"We're going to have one of the greatest marches tomorrow that has ever taken place in the United States," the Rev. Martin Luther King told cheering crowds in Roxbury yesterday afternoon.
The spectacle of more than 15,000 students ascending on Washington last weekend brings behind another demonstration for peace in the season's capital, three years ago. In February, 1962, Harvard's now-defunct peace organization, Tocsin, conceived and led a march of 6000 collegians, urging President Kennedy to continue...
Graham, whom the State Legislature of South Carolina has banned from its state universities for having praised Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, criticized mass movements and marches which dangerously block bridges and roads. "Highways have been integrated for 100 years," he quipped.
Marches are sensitive to the charge that they march from emotion alone. The leaders work to inform participants and stimulate discussion. There are dozens of leaflets, one-sided but often well-executed. One of the best descriptions of the purpose of the march is in an SDS information sheet for...
The writer of the paper distinguishes among three kinds of marches: marches with policy objectives (the March on Washington), marches to focus public opinion on less defined goals (the Selma March), and "those which primarily demonstrate the commitment and concern of the marchers" (traditional Easter peace-marches). Tomorrow's march...