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...mood of the march was more spirited than mournful. Most of the marchers were young, perhaps because it was a workday; but it was not the typical demonstration of white, middle-class radical students. The majority were unmistakably Puerto Rican, and the ghettoes they marched from were their homes, not an adopted cause...
...minority groups listed in the report were Black American, American Indian, Chicano, Puerto Rican, Hispano-American, and Others. The association reported 738 minority-group students for the 1969-70 academic year-more than twice that...
...Wednesday, September 9, the start of classes at the University of Hartford was a week away. YAF had rented the campus. U. or H. doesn't have a chapter of YAF; it's an urban university, located on a grassy hillside not far from Hartford's black and Puerto Rican "North End." On the first day of the convention, there was no real contact between the students at the convention and those of the university; those few U. of H. students who were already back at school didn't seem to know about the meetings. The Yaffers, as they call...
...remarkable result, C.U.N.Y.'s new freshman class includes 9,000 students who would have been flatly rejected under previous admission standards. One-third of the class is nonwhite, the biggest group of black and Puerto Rican freshmen in the U.S. The 9,000 include former laborers and domestics, cab drivers, carpenters and the sons and daughters of blue-collar workers. Many are the first in their families to enter college. They are awed-but all business. "These are the original American revolutionaries," says C.U.N.Y. Vice Chancellor Timothy Healy. "They want a piece of the action...
...official study also took note of disturbances at Camp Lejeune, N.C., where some 30 black and Puerto Rican Marines attacked 14 whites; one of the white Marines died. Racial antagonisms led to a brawl among 200 black and white soldiers at Fort Bragg, N.C. And 17 Marines were injured when blacks and whites, just returned from Vietnam, fought each other at Kaneohe Air Base in Hawaii...