Word: sds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, Black students' demands for Afro-American studies courses and a more relevant curriculum came to a head in 1969 at a number of campuses, including Cornell and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. And at Harvard, too, the Black student groups joined the fray, temporarily aligning themselves with SDS anti-war activists after the University Hall takeover...
...despite the violence that shocked the Harvard community, Weiner says the upheaval caused by the SDS takeover here was an important step for the national student movement. He says, "If anti-war students could shut down Harvard, the most prestigious university in the country, then the student anti-war movement was a force to be reckoned with...
When several hundred students, led by members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), did what had never been done at Harvard and took over University Hall...
There was blood on the sidewalk in the Yard. There were press conferences, endless faculty meetings. "The New College" convened outside; the old college caucused indoors. Black students marched, SDS marched, moderate students marched...
...discovered during the April days that Harvard students were not immune to the same types of emotions which made the Nazi rise to power possible. I regretfully came to realize that SDS had hit upon a tactic which was unbeatable, even at Harvard... The SDS had suceeded in winning at Harvard, in having themselves accepted by all too many of the student body as our moral vanguard...