Word: unionizers
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...over democracy; the prohibition had served the commendable purpose of keeping a pattern of patriarchal exclusion out of educational institutions. The battle over the ban, still ongoing, is testament to Turkey’s schizoid situation between the fundamentalist tide roaring to its south and the atheistic, successful European Union it desperately hopes to join...
...Originally, Wang was invited to speak as part of a debate with a pro-integration representative from the NAACP or the American Civil Liberties Union...
...instance, the Harvard Liberal Union (HLU)—an organization that had once called on President Truman to take steps against lynchings in the south—was marginally active on racial issues in 1958, according to then-HLU President Herbert E. Milstein ’58, though the organization was small...
...original invitee was Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland’s Solidarity Movement—the first anti-communist trade union in the Soviet bloc...
...placing two self-determination crusades under the same spotlight—one against the Soviet Union, the other against the U.S.—Harvard helped to demonstrate that the different causes are essentially the same,” former Crimson President Jacob M. Schlesinger ’84 wrote at the time. In the past, Commencement transcended the “celebrity parade mentality that has surrounded the event in recent years” and was instead a “fresh, well-crafted intellectual argument,” he wrote...