Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Harvard students stormed University Hall, boycotted classes and demanded campus reforms in the spring of 1969, they weren't in the vanguard of the student protest movement...
...nine was a wild year," as students on campuses nationwide poured out of the classrooms and into the streets to protest, says Ronald J. Grele, who is the director of the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University and recently helped to compile a book on the 1960s student movement...
...Wisconsin, the fight to establish Black studies fueled the movement for a variety of other student causes, eventually resulting in large-scale student protests against the war in Vietnam and the draft...
Even after the women's liberation movement and surge in grassroots organizing of the 1960's and 1970's, women were still excluded from the real power. According to "Movers and Shakers," a study in community power done in 1979, even in a city known for women leaders, only two of the top 40 business and government elite were women...
...issue of abortion is one of "privacy, autonomy and sexual equality," Estrichsaid. She chided the pro-choice movement forletting the anti-abortionists frame the questions,so the issue is one of being for or againstabortion, rather than choice...