Word: movement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What about Negroes wanting to be white?" the Reporter interjects. "At this stage in history," Howard replies, "the direction for crossing the barrier must be from white to black in order to make possible free movement from black to white.... One of the reasons I'm interested in the establishment of strong black college is that I'm certain they will be irresistible to whites...
...only the panel topics but the whole spirit of the CCAS conference was in marked contrast to that of the AAS meetings. The CCAS members sought to identify themselves with the people they were studying, and to join forces with the other movements in their society working for social change. The CCAS statement of purpose, adopted at a business meeting the night before the conference, says, "We realized that to be students of other peoples, we must first understand our relations to them." Kathleen Gough Aberle, an anthropologist at Simon Fraser University, urged scholars in the field to "choose between...
...major CCAS meeting on Saturday night, MIT Linguistics professor Noam Chomsky called the conference a reflection of the "much-too-long-delayed questioning of American society" within the professions. Linking it to the March M.I.T. work stoppage (whose slogan was "March 4 is a movement, not a day"), he urged other professional groups to follow the example of the CCAS. Harvard graduate student Jim Peck, one of the prime movers of the CCAS conference, says, "CCAS is a movement, not a committee...
...thought since contradictions within the student body are non-antagonistic. As it turned out the CRSR demands were overwhelmingly accepted at the first meeting. SDS is to be strongly blamed for having allowed a powerless and unorganized group such as that one to usurp the leadership of the student movement for however short a time...
...thing that bugs me is the way that radicals and liberals relate to blacks. They've changed the direction of the black movement, used it for their own purposes without changing at all themselves. What kind of blacks do you get at Harvard anyway? Those guys wouldn't have related to the black movement at al before...I don't knock anybody down for that--life is like that in America. I'm not saying you should want to put your life on the line, but don't be a phony about...