Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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QUESTION THE USE OF POLICE FORCE TO SUPPRESS STUDENT PROTEST ACTION AT HARVARD. YOUR ACTION SIMILAR TO TRAGIC MISTAKE MADE AT COLUMBIA BY PRESIDENT KIRK. YOUR INFLEXIBLE POSITION TOWARD NECESSARY REFORM A DISCREADIT TO HARVARD IN EYES OF NATION AND WORLD YOUR RESIGNATION IN BEST INTEREST OF RECONSTRUCTION AND REFORM AT HARVARD. IMMEDIATE STEPS SHOULD BE TAKEN TO INCLUDE STUDENTS IN MAKING POLICY AS I RECOMMENDED IN FEBRUARY 24 ALUMNI BULLETIN. RAPIDITY OF POLICE ACTION INDICATES THAT POLICY OF REPRESSION WAS DELIBERATE. ELIOT H. STANLEY '63 WASHINGTON...
...headquarters while the prisoners were still being processed. He moved into a small unused office, set up a makeshift courtroom, began reviewing each case. He ordered that 16 of the prisoners be let out on $100 bail and 22 be held, before Wayne County Prosecutor William Cahalan arrived to protest the releases. Cahalan insisted that police needed more time to run the paraffin tests that could determine whether any of the 142 suspects had recently fired a gun. Judge Crockett said the tests were being administered unconstitutionally because no lawyers for the suspects were present. He also obviously felt that...
Wherever Bob Dylan goes, his youthful legions gladly follow, and so, usually, does most of the pop world. He came out of Hibbing, Minn., as a straightforward folk singer in the Woody Guthrie manner. Then he began composing and singing the brooding social-protest lyrics (Masters of War, The Times They Are A-Changin') that epitomized the unrest of a generation. His subsequent fusion of folk and rock transformed the pop scene even more. For last year's John Wesley Harding, Dylan went to Nashville to get an authentic country flavor-thereby kicking off a whole new wave...
...union organization, a determined band of black radicals has posed a new threat. They have overturned production schedules with picket lines and some assaults on foremen. Victims include more moderate Negroes, who nevertheless do not openly condemn the militants. Both union and management leaders are concerned that the black protest movement will grow and cause more widespread damage...
...Pusey and the small circle of deans around him could conceive of only two responses to Wednesday's demonstration short of outright capitulation. They must now realize that they chose the wrong one. The Administration could have let the demonstrators stay in University Hall in the hope that their protest would be rendered ineffective by majority opposition to their tactics. Instead President Pusey and the Deans sent police to clear the building...