Word: student
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wisconsin, the fight to establish Black studies fueled the movement for a variety of other student causes, eventually resulting in large-scale student protests against the war in Vietnam and the draft...
...issue at a lot of places was Black studies," Grele says. At Cornell, he says, "Black students took over the student union and made Time magazine...
...Black students with guns in the media, but not the 3000 white students in support of them," says Murray, who was a Cornell undergraduate in spring, 1969, when Cornell's Black students took over the student union. But Murray adds that even at the mass demonstrations, "we never got any heavy busts at Cornell because we were well-sheltered by the liberal faculty...
...Kent State shootings in 1970 shocked the country and blasted through the illusions of the student protesters whose numbers had swelled as the Vietnam war became more and more unpopular...
...events at Harvard were perhaps an earlier foreshadowing of the violence to come. The tactics used by the police in arresting the student occupiers of University Hall were widely condemned as excessive and brutal, but Harvard administrators defended the actions, saying that the protesters had threatened the University's basic ability to continue...