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Dolours and Hugh Feeney, an I.R.A. comrade who is also in jail for the London bombings, formed the "People's Democracy," a militant offshoot of the civil rights movement, and took their cause to the streets. The sisters had been studying to become teachers. But they also began to...
Most Harvard students probably saw little need even for constructive alternatives to American foreign policy. The Young Democrats and the Young Republicans had both cabled support on Cuba to President John F. Kennedy '40, and the Lowell Lec meeting had been called by the most activist, most pacifist organization on...
However that may have been, white and black Harvard civil-rights activists showed a new interest in local matters in the fall of 1964. Archie C. Epps, then a first-year graduate student, now dean of Students, helped organize what became H-R Afro, after a drawn-out confrontation with...
The spring of '64 saw 200 students sit in at the Federal Building in Boston, demanding federal protection for civil-rights marchers in Alabama, the first of many sit-ins at the JFK building. It saw 30,000 people rally on the Boston Common to support the marchers, the first...
The noontime rally was preceded by three separate marches, including one that began from the Cambridge Common. Nearly 300 Cambridge marchers joined demonstrators from Brigham Circle and South Station in Boston after a two-hour trek that blocked east-bound traffic on Mass Ave.