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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lost much of their ardor for further federal civil rights legislation. Those guiding welfare bills through the House watched helplessly as the inevitable budget cuts took alarmingly large chunks out of their appropriations. Then, in June, the bomb fell. Guided by Congressman Jamie Whitten of Mississippi, the House came within inches of saddling an $18 billion HEW bill with a rider that threatened to return school desegregation efforts to the medieval...
...raise of 15 cents now and 15 cents next year for the 70 accomodators, or dorm maids, putting their salaries at $1.99 and $2.14. These figures are within one cent of Union demands...
...reject the view that ascribes the April and May disturbances primarily to a conspiracy of student revolutionaries. That demonology is no less false than the native radical doctrine that attributes all wars, racial injustices, and poverty to the machinations of a capitalist and militarist "Establishment." Student revolutionists within SDS planned turbulent confrontations and revolutionary tactics. They manipulated facts in ways that created distrust and bred unwarranted antagonism. There apparently was occasional talk of wider revolution to overthrow the present political system. A very few revolutionists may have been in dead earnest. More, we suspect, were half in dreamland, feverishly discussing...
...position of the student rebels, but the difference between the two lies in the emphasis. Where the film, for instance, made a great point of showing the camaraderie and sense of community of the students in the five buildings during the days of occupation, the Cox Report states that "within the buildings time often passed slowly. Each day was a less exciting day than its predecessor, except for rumor, incidents, and political debate." But, it does also describe or provide a witness's description of the "real community spirit" in the buildings. For the Commission the rebellion...
...administration work at developing a dialogue "in an atmosphere of mutual respect?" Columbia, Chicago and numerous recent events tell us that it can happen here: the Harvard community has no guaranteed immunity to the forces of reaction. Slaughter of students is a world-wide phenomenon no longer unknown within our own boundaries...