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...majority of Harvard's other faculty members, would consider misguided or reprehensible. But for the moment, interests in civil rights and community organizing just led many Tocsin people to drift into the other leftist groups that were starting to surface: the Student Non-Violent Co-Ordinating Committee (SNCC), for instance, or the new Students for a Democratic Society, which gradually absorbed most of Tocsin's members and finally, in 1964, its small treasury as well. That was just over a year after a new dean of the Faculty, Franklin L. Ford, told registrants in the 1963 summer session that Harvard...
...significant number of students went down South to work in voter registration projects, mostly under the aegis of the Congress on Racial Equality or the NAACP. A number of Harvard students were arrested that summer, and at least one--John N. Perdew '64, shot at and arrested during an SNCC demonstration in Americus, Ga.--spent more than three months in jail, while his friends in Kirkland House raised $2000 for his defense only to have the Supreme Court strike down the anti-insurrection law under which he was arrested. Other civil-rights workers had only slightly less eventful summers...
...Communist Party and the Socialist Workers Party. New Left operatives may well have included in their ranks the infamous "Tommy the Traveller," an agent provocateur working out of Hobart, Cornell and other colleges during the late sixties. The Black Activism unit focused on the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panthers, and other groups. Their handiwork included the infiltration of Malcolm X's organization by a man who soon became the black leader's personal bodyguard...
BECAUSE DYLAN emerged during the peak of the civil rights movement and began to hit his stride at the time of such breakthroughs as the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, his pacifism and libertarianism were automatically identified with the left. Those were friendly days when whites still worked with SNCC and the distinction between political and cultural radicalism was hazy. Singing songs then seemed a political act --if enough people sang, blacks would withdraw have social equality, U.S. soldiers would withdraw from Vietnam. Smoke-ins looked like acts of political defiance and demonstrations liberated the spirit as much as they dramatized...
...Harmon, a small town outside of New York, Lisa's guidance counselor did her a favor of informing the colleges Lisa had applied to of her radical activities in and out of school. Activities like organizing school cafeteria fasts to raise money for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and antiwar agitation. Lots of students were agitators in their local high schools but few stepped beyond the bounds of practical wisdom and got themselves thrown out of high school. Agitating against the war in 1966 was not treated as lightly as agitations four years later when protest became more...