Word: statements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ONLY thing safe to say about SDS these days is that none of its variations has much in common with the SDS that drafted the "Port Haron Statement" in 1962. That was a group of disaffected students and intellectuals, alienated both from the American dream and the pedantic Old Left squabbles their parents had engaged in thirty years before. Led by Tom Hayden and Al Haber, these children of Hiroshima and Coca-Cola nurtured on Paul Goodman hoped to forge a "New Left" that would revive radical politics after the critical somnolence of the fifties...
...committee's statement is reprinted to the right in today's CBIMSOM...
...Haynsworth was part of a "conspiracy." The aim, said Pollock, was to limit the rights of workers. Samuel Tucker of the N.A.A.C.P. blasted Haynsworth's "persistent hostility" to the Constitution's promise of racial equality. Eight of the House of Representatives' nine Negro members endorsed a statement opposing confirmation. They said it would "unequivocally tell black people that the one significant route for peaceful resolution of society's racial injustices ... is gradually being phased...
DuBois, died self-exiled in Ghana just six years ago. DuBois composed the poem that here accompanies and reveals the hidden thunder of Bellows' Both Members of This Club. Again, it was DuBois who wrote the classic prose statement of what lies deepest in black blues: "After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son born with a veil and gifted with second sight in this American world-a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation...
Also included in the bill before the House is a section which forbids the Defense Department to make any grantsto colleges until 60 days after "a full disclosure of the purposes, cost, and duration of such a contract." That disclosure must include a "statement summarizing the record of the school, college, or university with regard to cooperation on miltary matters such as ROTC and recruiting on campus...