Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During World War II, five students and their professor began distributing leaflets in protest of Hitler. After they were killed by the Gestapo in February 1943, the White Rose Foundation was created to honor their memory...
Muller, who was dismissed without honor from the German army in the 1940s and was a member of the White Rose movement, said the goal of the protest was to take action against the Nazis and national socialism...
According to Megan L. Peimer '97, one of the organizers of the coalition, the protest was not directly linked to the Alternative Senior Gift Fund, which also targets the diversity of Harvard's faculty, but is "related in spirit...
...goal of the protest, according to rallier Jessy J. Fernandez '99, was to let pre-frosh, undergraduates and the entire Harvard community know that "Harvard is really failing" in its attempts to diversify its faculty and curriculum...
However, Peimer said the protest was mainly directed toward changing the make-up of the Faculty, not necessarily courses...