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DIED. CLARENCE L. HARRIS, 94, lunch manager who in 1960 let four black students remain seated at Woolworth's whites-only counter; in Greensboro, N.C. Harris did not serve the protesters, but his insistence that police not be called helped energize the sit-in, which after six months (and hundreds...
After the sit-in outside the Chancellor's office in February, which came after months of protests and press conferences by anti-sweatshop forces, UW Chancellor David Ward agreed to essentially all of protestors' demands.
...sit-in, the Michigan students won an agreement that included full disclosure, protection for women and a living wage for workers. Other sit-ins on the issue have taken place at Duke, Brown and Georgetown universities, the University of Arizona and the University of North Carolina...
"The university agreed to study that and think about it but they wouldn't commit, so we decided to increase the pressure," says Andrew R. Cornell, a Michigan student. The Michigan antisweatshop group then organized a 350-person rally, followed by the sit-in the next week.
"We certainly intend to continue to be loud and to continue to be forceful," he says. "But a sit-in would only be a last resort after we were convinced that there was no way to go forward with the administration."