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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...
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...
Students protest the University's decision to force 16 SDS protestors to take a leave of absence after staging the November sit-in. ...
...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...
Penn was in a bind. It was running at a deficit, but to avoid losing its place in the Ivies, it had to spend heavily to recruit and keep the best faculty and meet the growing demand by students for more course choices, more diversity, more access to professors and...