Word: movements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paine Hall discussion for the Visions '89 Conference on Saturday, Stanford University graduate Rudy Fuentes declared that last year's mass minority protest against the school's Western Civilization requirement was not an isolated event but part of a movement toward "changing the concept of education at Stanford...
...second paragraph, the author announced that the anti-abortion movement aims to make abortion illegal and send "thousands of women back to the horror and death of self-induced and back alley abortions or the enslavement of forced pregnancy." Later he argued that "forced reproduction is a shackle on all women preventing their full participation in society...
...Lyndon Johnson in New Hampshire's Democratic primary. McCarthy's antipolitical antiwar campaign had galvanized American youth. Beards shaved and locks shorn, they rushed by the thousands to become "Clean for Gene" workers in his crusade. The New York Senator's decision to enter the race split the peace movement. It also brought back to American politics an almost mystical icon of concern for the poor, the disenfranchised and the disaffected. "I think we can end the divisions within the United States, the violence," Kennedy declared from the rostrum at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel, after winning the June 4 California...
...violence that would distress King more. Members of the Invaders, a local group of black militants, infiltrated his march with the garbage men. When windows were smashed, police moved in against orderly demonstrators and radicals alike. Despondent over the chaos and the rift in his once solid movement, King said, "Maybe the good people should just stand aside until the violence has run its course...
...marking time. Late in the year at a conference on women's liberation, Kate Millett gave a landmark speech on "Sexual Politics" that was the germ of her seminal 1970 book. However, exponents of such views were widely derided as "bra burners." Even in the antiwar and civil rights movements, women were relegated to subordinate roles. Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael went as far as to say that "the only position for women in the Movement is prone." Some things refused to change...