Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...routine roll call at the Presidio stockade in San Francisco was disrupted last October. Linking arms and singing We Shall Overcome, 27 Army prisoners staged a sitdown protest. An hour later, they were hauled off to their cells, charged with mutiny - one of a baker's dozen of crimes ranging from murder to rape punishable by death under the Uniform Code of Military Justice...
...reaction of Wisconsin students to the black protest was strikingly uniform. The black demands represented a legitimate complaint about the university, and sooner or later something would be done to correct it. "The demands will be met eventually, and most of the blacks will be kicked out," one of the active white protestors said, "this doesn't affect me physically even though I suppose it bothers me morally that I'm not going to be punished...
TOWARD achieving most of the 13 black demands, the student protest went as far as it possibly could. University chancellor H. Edwin Young outlined what was being done to recruit more blacks--faculty and students--and promised to do more to get a Black Studies department established. But Wisconsin is not a tightly organized private university; all the black changes require the approval of several of the school's various faculties and ultimately the Wisconsin state legislature which approves the final budget each year...
...Guard troops on campus the dramatization was more than anyone expected. The State of Wisconsin reacted as if it were setting an example for the country: if you don't know how to keep your kids in line, Wisconsin can sure show you how. The Governor compared the black protest to every campus demonstration in the last two years...
Blacks have vowed to continue their protest this week, but they have asked their white support to return to classes. The situation at Wisconsin -- a stalemate from the beginning -- remains a stalemate now. Wisconsin has had its protest this year; the Guard has gone home. The 13 black demands will now go before university and legislative committees where a few will be adopted in a modified form while university officials sift through demonstration pictures to single out black leaders for punishment...