Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invitation, Margolin said, was designed "to make our protest seem like an act of curiosity; we aren't interested in hearing what they're doing. But we just expected to see imperialist facilities, and having living imperialists on hand will be nice...
Those who come to see Rednecks are a different breed. They are mainly kids, kids like the ones that protest and yell in the rest of the country. When they reach the South, they are in for a surprise. While their friends at home are protesting racism or complicity by one of the North's universities, the kids in the South are seeing racism stripped of its Northern subtleties. They have come to see the South's dirt, and the South rubs the dirt into their eyes. They ignore places like The Plantation House, concentrate on truck stops and corner...
...with which to counter the militants. All at once, Northern liberals discovered that integration could mean demonstrations in front of their schools, protest marches on their main streets. All at once, Negroes were not just a faceless social cause, but a community of individuals, some of whom could be as intractable, nasty, destructive-and racist-as some whites had been all along. And through these discoveries ran the nagging realization that the more the Negroes got, the more they demanded. That this is a universal human trait was beside the point...
...were dismissed last spring by the local board of a predominantly Negro school district in Brooklyn which was set up to test decentralization of the school system. The local board accused the teachers of trying to sabotage the experiment. The city school board ordered their reinstatement--over local board protests--after the New York teachers union struck for three weeks to protest the dismissals...
...MANY ways these criticisms are criticisms of style. But they are substantive, nontheless. No action--by Olimpieri, Stendahl, Faculty, or students--is going to overpower the war machine. One's strategy, then, necessarily becomes that of symbolic protest and confrontation, which differ from publicity stunts in that they aim at raising issues for debate. And this tactic only succeeds when carried off dramatically...