Word: movements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time I left here, I was disillusioned with the movement," says Harrision. "Now I'm involved in more indirect ways. The times have changed and social change is not likely to be brought about in those ways. That period represented a window in American history. It's not too easy to generate the same kind of mass involvement today. As one grows and moves into a profession, one is in a position to address these issues in more official ways. Certain of us have chosen to work within institutional frameworks...
...years between the two cases, a powerless group of parents evolved into a well-organized interest group with access to political resources. Tarver's thesis investigated "how people got involved in this sort of social movement and how it changed them," he says...
...Executive Committee also does not include any overseers who have publicly expressed support for the divestment movement. The committee's agreement on divestment is made more striking as the Board becomes more preoccupied by Harvard's links to South Africa...
...1960s still live in the hearts and minds of the generation of students who were politically active then and who have gone on to leave their mark, says Gitlin, who finds that the SDS movement may have died, but that the activists of his generation remain involved with the issues that first inspired them...
...gotten to know some of the SDS people nationally. I got to know Tom Hayden. We had the back room at Cronin's. It began to seem to me that the issues were interrelated and something more had to be transformed. I got involved with the Civil Rights Movement. I was very impressed with SNCC [the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]. This was also the spring of the Birmingham violence...