Word: protesting
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...Visiting Committee of the Center of International Affairs (CFIA), which is located on Memorial Drive, is forced to end a meeting when 200 members of the November Action Committee (NAC) enter the building and demonstrate. The following week marks a long-awaited Vietnam War protest week, during which Black Panther Party members speak at a Panther teach-in on campus...
While Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci lashes out at Harvard for failing to consult the city government about its preference, students protest police brutality against blacks in Cambridge, and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) criticizes Harvard's minority and female hiring practices...
...April 25, 1971, 250,000 demonstrators marched on the Capitol to protest U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia. In what are known as the May Day protests, demonstrators attempt to use civil disobedience to shut down the Washington...
Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.)speaks on campus, urging students to "shake offyour lethargy" and to continue to protest Americaninvolvement in Vietnam...
...days later, black students from Afro andthe Pan-African Liberation Committee take overMassachusetts Hall in protest of the University'sinvestment in Gulf Oil. The students object toGulf Oil's practices in Angola and refused torelinquish the building until Harvard sold itsinterests in Gulf...