Word: obu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coalition (NAC) people like Mike Ansara and Barry Margolin are on hand. When NAC has a demonstration, WSA is there. John Berg is always there. WSA people usually ask political questions of the other demonstrators, while NAC people usually talk among themselves and laugh a lot. When Afro and OBU has a demonstration, both WSA and NAC people show up. They yell, "Right on!" whenever an Afro guy says anything; they keep a discrete, almost reverent distance; and they are always asking what they can do to help, which is usually nothing...
...third group, by far the most interesting, is the press. At many demonstrations there are more reporters, photographers, cameramen, cameramen's helpers, off-duty reporters, and off-duty photographers than there are demonstrators. At the height of the latest OBU occupation, about 50 journalists were inside University Hall with another 10 or 20 outside...
Though the discipline meted out to those participating in the Nov. 19 action is clearly justifiable, the occupation of University Hall by the Organization for Black Unity (OBU) does not call for similar punishment. The Committee on Rights and Responsibilities should recognize the occupation for what is was-a bargaining tactic undertaken by a group engaged in important, and frequently frustrating, negotiations with the University. While they did disrupt the normal functioning of the University, members of OBU used restraint in the occupation: they neither physically assaulted nor harassed other members of the University. In sum, the OBU occupation...
Between 700 and 800 people have signed a petition sponsored by the November Action Committee (NAC) supporting the Organization for Black Unity (OBU...
...circulated the petition-which calls for the acceptance and implementation to OBU's five demands and termination of any punishment proceedings against OBU demonstrators and sympathizers-in an attempt to enlist student, Faculty and employee backing for OBU...