Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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White Ghettos. Another group marched on the Supreme Court, whose decisions have done much in the past decade and a half to secure the rights of all minorities. Their aim: to protest a decision upholding the convictions of 24 Indians for violating fishing regulations in the state of Washington. Led by George Crow Flies High, a Hidatsa chief from North Dakota in buckskin jacket and pants and full-feathered headdress, the group ignored a statute banning demonstrations outside the court. Indian women let out war whoops. Others cried: "Earl Warren, you better come out now." Demonstrators defiantly sprawled over imposing...
...seen the presidential Citroen bolt out of a seldom-used back gate. Before De Gaulle quit in 1946, he had retreated from Paris to his estate at Colombey-les-deux-Eglises in eastern France. Now some 250,000 demonstrators were parading through Paris in yet another anti-De Gaulle protest. On hearing the bulletin, they began to chant: "Adieu, De Gaulle; adieu, De Gaulle...
...ability to bring the government to heel in money matters, it was only a short, logical step to the demand for worker power in political terms. But the evidence is that it was a step not taken by the great majority of French workers. Only a vocal few, in protest against their long history of being flattened to a single dimension by their unions as well as management and the government, demanded "direct democracy" and "participation" in factory affairs. They were sufficient in number to shout down Pompidou's wage increases. But they were not numerous enough to prevent...
Until the night of bloodshed, the university seemed to be on the road to recovery. Faculty and administrators were getting down to the first serious talks about reform, and when student rebels occupied a university-owned tenement on Morningside Heights to protest conditions in the building, police managed to break up that demonstration without ruffling a collar...
Defiance Duplication. Later in the week, though, the university announced the suspension of four S.D.S. leaders, including its chairman, Mark Rudd. In protest, Rudd and a band of his faithful followers then seized Hamilton Hall, the main classroom building of Columbia's undergraduate college. The demonstrators threw up barricades, apparently trying to duplicate last month's five-day defiance of the administration...