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...Cafeteria, demanding that it hire more blacks. Several dozen more joined the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer, once more risking arrest or (many of them thought) worse to help register southern blacks, run "freedom schools," or organize for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. In the fall, 20 SDS members began block-by-block organizing in an integrated Roxbury community, beginning with demands that abandoned and unsafe buildings in the area be demolished. It was the same year the Harvard-Radcliffe Combined Charities dropped the American Friends Service Committee because of its "political activities"--"we found that the Friends...
...protection for civil-rights marchers in Alabama, the first of many sit-ins at the JFK building. It saw 30,000 people rally on the Boston Common to support the marchers, the first of many monster rallies there. It saw 500 students, undeterred by a Lampoon counter-demonstration, ride SDS's buses to the first of many marches on Washington. It saw the first of many Harvard teach-ins on Vietnam, an all-night marathon that had to be moved to Sanders Theater and overflowed anyway. And it saw Harvard's first hostile confrontation with a war-maker, an eminently...
...students it seemed to provide blatant, explosive proof that there might be some truth to analyses like Barrington Moore's or Mario Savio's--that Savio's "managerial tyranny" with little interest in truth or anything else worth respecting was trying to manage their lives, and generally succeeding. SDS, continuing its block-by-block organizing around local issues in Roxbury and North Harvard but increasingly returning to its predecessor Tocsin's roots in antiwar organizing, doubled its 100 members in the fall...
...perspective on other kinds of disturbance occasionally demonstrated startling pervasiveness. Eight hundred Harvard students went to Washington in November to join 25,000 antiwar marchers in listening to such speakers as Coretta Scott King, 81-year old Norman Thomas and 30-year old Carl Oglesby president of SDS. Some of the students defied the march's organizers and carried signs calling for immediate American withdrawl from Indochina. The next fall, a thousand people at registration signed SDS's interest cards...
Defense secretary Robert S. McNamara escaped less blithely. When McNamara turned down an SDS request that he participate in a debate on the Johnson administration's war policy during his November visit to Cambridge for a seminar at the new Institute of Politics, SDS called for a demonstration outside the Quincy House seminar. When McNamara emerged from Quincy House, 800 protesters blocked the surrounding streets and mobbed his car, forcing him to climb on its hood and agree to answer question "for five minutes." "How many South Vietnamese civilians have we killed?" someone asked McNamara said he didn't know...