Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Participating in the City of Cambridge's week-long celebration of the Constitution, Bell argued that the Constitution was used primarily to protect property until the fight against slavery and the civil rights movement...
...referendum onacademic freedom at Harvard. More than 200 lawprofessors have signed a letter expressing concernover Bok's slow response to the Dalton vote andhis decision to override tenure for VisitingProfessor of Law David Trubek, another left-wingscholar. Like Trubek, Dalton is associated withCritical Legal Studies, a movement which holdsthat the law is rooted in dominant social normsand not abstract notions of justice...
...only a decade and a half ago, the nation's conscience was raised tremendously regarding the environment. Pollution became a buzzword in the days of conservation, ecology, and the Clean Water Act. Incidentally, one of the most important facets of the movement was severely curtailing dumping into the oceans...
Throughout the summer, antiwar demonstrators have used their bodies to block the movement of munitions at the naval weapons station in Concord, Calif. Last week that classic act of civil disobedience ended in tragedy when a weapons train plowed into a group of peace activists, mutilating one of them. As other demonstrators leaped out of the way, S. Brian Willson, 46, was caught sitting cross-legged on the tracks. Willson's wife and stepson watched in horror as the train dragged him 25 feet, fracturing his skull and severing his right leg below the knee. Surgeons later amputated his other...
...Soweto, the sprawling black township outside Johannesburg. He says his greatest regret is that he never worked in a mine. Instead, he entered law school in 1972, though he did not graduate until nine years later. In the meantime, Ramaphosa was busy helping to lead the Black Consciousness movement, whose charismatic young founder, Steve Biko, died in 1977 of injuries sustained while in police custody. Ramaphosa headed the university section of the South African Students Organization, a radical umbrella group that gave rise to several militant student factions that remain active today...