Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential campaign tapped white fears. The upsurge of drug-related urban violence, says Democratic pollster Harrison Hickman, "has rekindled in people's minds the connection between blacks and violent crime." - Affirmative action has provoked a second-generation backlash, particularly among working-class whites. In combining the roles of protest leader and political candidate, Jesse Jackson stokes this fear with his demands for "economic justice...
...usual black turnout while persuading whites to put aside historic prejudices. To fend off criticism from conservatives, he has distanced himself from Jackson. Some militant black leaders in Richmond resent Wilder's retreat from his roots. But if he becomes Governor, he will have done what Jackson and other protest leaders have been unable to do: build a coalition that can put a black in a Governor's mansion...
Take, for example, the top sports story of the day: the Harvard baseball team's 4-3 victory over the Jumbos of Tufts at Soldiers Field. Byron Johnson pitched a four-hitter, and Tufts Coach Bob Meeham played the game under protest...
...April 9, 1969, more than 75 Harvard undergraduates stormed Universtity Hall in protest of college policy on ROTC, low-income housing in Cambridge, and Afro-American studies...
Cynicism about changing the policies of the orwellian Corporation certainly contributes to this refusal. Several years ago, students erected shanties and stopped traffic in the Square to protest Harvard's investments in South Africa. The Corporation didn't budge. Working at PBH, by contrast, guarantees good results; hours of efforts won't end in total frustration...