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In a second decision, the court struck down by a 5-to-4 vote a Forsyth County, Ga., law that required demonstrators to purchase a parade permit for a fee based on the anticipated cost of police protection. The permit fee was imposed after a series of costly civil rights...
The discussions we expanded to the Houses after the Rodney King verdict and Los Angeles riots. Students also held a series of silent protests on the steps of Widener Library, and participated in marches in Boston.
Some students, taking Bell and Jackson's wordsto heart, organized numerous discussions with thedean, protest marches and even a series of sit-insin professors' officers.
"The class was extremely civil rights-minded and activist," says Richard Blumenthal '67, currently the Attorney General of Connecticut. "I re- call that for a number of marches in the South,busloads of Harvard students went down."
Rioting itself is an extension of the politics of protest. In Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, Doug McAdam analyzes the effectiveness of disruptive political action. Both riots and non-violent demonstrations such as sit-ins and marches "may constitute the only available means by which excluded groups...