Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After several days of meetings, the girls decided that a hunger strike was their most efficient means of protest, since--unlike a sit-in--it would not interfere with the College's business. On midnight Wednesday, May 10, they stopped eating...
...June 2 something new happened. Three days of rioting and violence followed a sit-in demonstration by the Mothers for Adequate Welfare (MAW) at the Grove Hall Office in Roxbury...
Like the classes which preceeded it, this one broadened the scope of student activism, involvement in the University community and national politics. Many members went south in the summer of 1964 to participate in sit-ins, pickets and other civil rights organizing in Mississippi. In one form or another, almost all were drawn into the Vietnam debate; increasingly, they signed petitions, or marched; and, increasingly, they turned against...
...Long Hot Summer" was a tired cliche when Boston's prediminantly Negro community of Roxbury ushered in this year's season on June 2. A sit-in demonstration by the Mothers for Adequate Welfare at a Roxbury welfare office escalated into a clash between police and local youths that was followed by several nights of violence...
...ruling on Julian Bond's right to sit in the Georgia legislature, which had excluded him for his anti-Vietnam posture, the Supreme Court for the first time overruled such an attempt by a legislature. Unlike Congress, however, state institutions are clearly subordinate under the Constitution to the Federal judiciary. The Supreme Court has been understandably reluctant to try to extend such power to directly oppose Congress, which has control over the Court's appropriations, membership, and jurisdiction. In Kilbourn v. Thompson, it acknowledged that it could not consider charges against Senators for actions performed in their official capacity...