Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time I left here, I was disillusioned with the movement," says Harrision. "Now I'm involved in more indirect ways. The times have changed and social change is not likely to be brought about in those ways. That period represented a window in American history. It's not too easy to generate the same kind of mass involvement today. As one grows and moves into a profession, one is in a position to address these issues in more official ways. Certain of us have chosen to work within institutional frameworks...
...There's a certain amount of social consciousness that categorizes that period," he says. "It was a period of Black identity formation. I think it is difficult not to feel some kind of obligation to social change. I would probably not be too proud of some of the things I sported as truth then," he says...
When Clay Tarver '88 elegantly sweeps his shoulder-length hair back with his hands and gazes silently into the distance, heads turn in the Adams House dining hall. Guitarist, basketball player and social studies major, Tarver is the closest thing to a sex symbol at Harvard...
...years between the two cases, a powerless group of parents evolved into a well-organized interest group with access to political resources. Tarver's thesis investigated "how people got involved in this sort of social movement and how it changed them," he says...
...take an interest in other people for any kind of political or social activism," says Guy B. Wallace...