Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University Hall takeover of 1969 had shaken Harvard at its foundations. Students who had raided the administration building to protest Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) recruiting for the Vietnam War had been physically removed--some violently--by police, who were ordered to the scene by then-President Nathan M. Pusey...
...there were two very central, very dramatic, very black and white issues. One was racial segregation, one was the war in Vietnam," he says. "Since then, there hasn't been a single issue that has been central enough...
...Dean of Student Archie C. Epps III also attributes the more broadly based student activism of the '60s to the Vietnam War and the fight for civil rights. Epps says comparisons between today's activism and '60s activism are unfair...
...February op-ed piece in The Crimson, Aron R. Fischer '99-'00 and Benjamin L. McKean '02, two PSLM members, began by describing a wave of anti-sweatshop sit-ins and protests at universities nationwide, then asked, "Is this a scene from 1969 during the opposition to the Vietnam War?...No these protests happened in February...
West arrived at Harvard one year after the 1969 takeover of University Hall and the establishment of the Afro-Americanstudies department, and at the height of the BlackPower movement and the Vietnam...