Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyone who has observed the swelling tensions at Howard University, the student protest there last week was predictable, justified, and long overdue...
...Howard Administration has been consistently out of touch with the needs, concerns and feelings of the students. The protest last week--in which students took over the Administration building, leading officials to close the University--was the only course of action by which they could force Administration officials to come to terms with their grievances...
...protest, which involved over two thousand students in a massive Administration building sit-in, ended after three days of round-the-clock negotiations between the protest steering committee and Administration officials. The sit-in was brought to a close when Administration officials granted two of the four steering committee demands and promised "immediate negotiations to resolve other problems...
However, both protest leaders and the student body as a whole regarded the settlement, in Brown's words: "(As a) victory for black students not only at Howard but at every black college...
...students filed out of the administration building Saturday afternoon carrying blankets and suitcases, conversation centered around today's return of Howard President James Nabrit. The resignation of Nabrit became the chief student demand as sentiment swelled during the protest. Students claimed that Nabrit spent too much time away from the campus and neglected the "problems and issues raised by the student body." Nabrit was reported to be in Puerto Rico when the protest started. He is scheduled to retire in July and would face mandatory retirement because of age--he is 68--in September...