Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although this week's "painters' helper" protest has concentrated on one specific issue, the charges of "University racism" that the protest has spawned-are sure to raise larger questions concerning Harvard's performance as an employer of minority groups...
Richard Sternhell, a member of the National Moratorium Committee, which is among the groups planning the Washington protest, said yesterday that the demonstration's organizers are presently considering the possibility of banning the display of flags at the march...
...This piece appeared first in the CRIMSON four days after the March on the Pentagon in 1967. Many people called the March on the Pentagon a turning point in War Protest. Many people later called Lerner's article one of the reasons why, at Harvard, three hundred demonstrators turned up to lock a Dow Chemical Corporation representative in a room for seven hours...
...group fears that a widespread display of NLF flags at the protest and a disproportionate number of speakers supporting the NLF will give the public the impression that the peace movement as a whole favors an NLF victory in Vietnam, Ratner said. The group also is worried by what it sees as the strong possibility of violence at the demonstration...
Harvard YPSL voted not to take part in the Washington protest at a meeting on November 5. At the same meeting, the group affirmed its support for immediate withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. Shortly before the Harvard vote, national YPSL leaders had advised members not to go to Washington...