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Lewis' involvement in the Civil Rights movement began in 1958, when he was attending college in Nashville. A student of the non-violent philosophy of Mohandas K. Gandhi and his idol King, Lewis helped start a sit-in campaign to protest segregated restaurant counters that would spread across the entire South...
Harvard members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) shout down a University press conference to protest what they see as racist discrepancies in Harvard's payroll and later hold a sit-in at the office of Dean May. On November 14, Harvard students leaflet to support a 40,000-person march in Washington that took place the previous...
Students protest the University's decision to force 16 SDS protestors to take a leave of absence after staging the November sit...
...have sent shock waves across campus as powerful as the 1969 University hall sit-in, but the Democracy Teach-Ins (DTI) brought mallscale activism to Harvard, along with a taste of what could...
...choices, more diversity, more access to professors and--one of the most salient trends of the post-'60s student body--more amenities, including comfy dorms, indoor tennis courts and pools. Meyerson had been acting chancellor at Berkeley during the height of student unrest. At Penn, he says, "the worst sit-in I experienced was when we tried to shut down the hockey rink...