Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Religion), land exploitation by the California petroleum industry (Oil!), subservience of universities to business (The Goose-Step), cowardly book publishers (Money Writes!), the prosecution of Sacco and Vanzetti (Boston), the baronial life of Henry Ford (The Flivver King), and the ruthlessness of mine owners in the 1913-14 Colorado strike (King Coal). Sinclair also crusaded for birth control and childlabor laws, and helped found the American Civil Liberties Union...
...have a standing obligation to the 17,500 or more students-white, black, yellow, red and brown-who are not on strike and have every right to expect continuation of their education...
...satisfied till I went to the dentist down there over the way and had every last one of mine torn out of my head and a set like her own put in. Here are hers now. Just look at that. Sure you never know where justice will strike next...
McCoy said he was not surprised at the student demonstrations which have followed in the wake of the teacher strike settlement. "Once these kids realize the inferior education they're getting, they may well become revolutionaries. Their parents are already on that road," he said...
...Some of the students in Ocean Hill-Brownsville don't come to school because they don't have any clothes." McCoy said. "During the strike, our teachers went to these kids' homes and tutored them. That's the kind of responsibility and responsiveness we're looking for in our teachers...