Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They all considered the Corporation's decision on divestiture an unacceptable policy, and they all cared enough to do something about it, despite their lack of formal leadership. By the start of the working day, the four flights of stairs to U-Hall were entirely filled with protesters. Another 250 people picketed the building, forming a human wall around...
...NIGHT BEFORE, when the three-or four-mile march had turned into a rally around the John Harvard side of U-Hall, the crowd clapped and chanted, filled with energy and confidence. They were proud: Not only had they helped create the largest demonstration at Harvard since 1972, but they had done so in the middle of the night, in spite of cold weather and a seemingly unmovable Corporation...
...leaders had no way of knowing whether they were marshaling 3000 committed anti-apartheid protesters, or just a large group of college kids out for a good time. And not knowing, they ran the risk of leading an impassioned group of, say, 13 students in an assault on U-Hall reminiscent of Custer's last stand, while everyone else held back and watched. But, though they did not know it, the leaders had received a mandate from the core of protesters who remained throughout the night, and those who helped blockade U-Hall throughout the following day: If they would...
...U. Utah Phillips--Passim...
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