Word: northerners
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...this was generated by an organization composed mostly of students from prestigious, Northern liberal-arts colleges. What they had in common was a desire to change the world...
Early SDS projects emphasized members'commitment to social change and groupdecision-making. Volunteers moved to lowincomeareas of northern cities such as Chicago, wherethey attempted to organize unemployed neighborhoodresidents and live according to the principles ofparticipatory democracy...
During the activists' 10 days of protest in thestreets of Chester, 57 students were arrested.These arrests represented the first large-scalestudent strike by any white, Northern campusgroup...
After president Lyndon B. Johnson launchedbombing raids on northern Vietnam and called forincreases in the draft in February 1965, smallSDS-run demonstrations cropped up across thecountry...
...weeks earlier, a gang of 200 Nazi-skins marched through the northern Italian city of Vicenza shouting racist slogans and waving banners with swastika-like emblems. Mainstream political leaders expressed outrage, but not Teodoro Buontempo, 48, a self-proclaimed fascist elected to Parliament in March on the ticket of the National Alliance, the successor to the party founded by followers of Benito Mussolini. In an interview with the Turin daily La Stampa, Buontempo said, "I would send them into the midst of society" to proclaim their values. And they have. Speaking on the Italian television network RAI-1, Maurizio Boccacci...