Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some civil rights strategists are beginning to wonder aloud whether the time has not come to abandon demonstrations altogether-in Randolph's words, to "shift from the streets to the conference room." Many suspect that Negro protest marches may have lost the effectiveness that they undoubtedly once had and, indeed, may only foment white hostility. B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League last week reported that in 1966 Ku Klux Klan membership has increased by 10,000, mostly in the North and the Midwest, to a nationwide total of 29,500, and concluded that irban...
...Sputnik 1, which, in 96.2 minutes in 1957, sailed blithely across the skies, bridging the theoretical boundaries of nations without so much as an izvinite or by-your-leave. What could any of the violated nations do about it? Nothing. None of them even thought to protest. That spontaneous abdication of national prerogative in deference to Sputnik's achievement still informs the approach to space nearly a decade-and thousands of trespasses-later. No established rules exist in space, and no method has yet been found to make rules effective there. No one has devised a way to station...
...resorted to such brutish mob violence as the terrorism that greeted school opening in Grenada, Miss., last week. A neat, small (pop. 12,000), outwardly placid county seat deep in Faulkner country, Grenada (pronounced Gren-ay-da) had been simmering with racial tension ever since the James Mer edith protest march trooped through town last June...
While secret-weapons research in peacetime may present ethical problems for a profession devoted to the broadest possible advancement of knowledge, the fuss at Penn seems more political than professional. The protest was originally raised by the Philadelphia Committee to End the War in Viet...
...cracks around the world. Moscow and Peking issue angry warnings. Demonstrators clog the streets outside U.S. embassies, and USIA libraries are burned. Headlines are black and thunderous; U.S. allies look grave and offer to mediate; the United Nations is in an uproar. In the U.S., sandals and beards and protest signs turn up everywhere. The liberal press is in a frenzy. Congressmen and Senators shake their heads solemnly and charge the U.S. with attempting to police the world...