Word: woolworths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pressman said that the Boston demonstration was only one of at least 12 being staged in major cities across the country. The Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee in Atlanta, Ga., had asked the Boston EPIC group, which last year led a boycott against the Woolworth chain, to join in the "second stage" of protesting against segregation practices...
...this picketing is handled as well as last year's Woolworth demonstrations, it deserves generous support. Such non-violent, orderly demonstrations are a legitimate and--as the Woolworth successes show--useful weapon in the fight to extend social equality...
Last year they went boom. Fueled by the spark of Southern Negro sit-in strikers, Northern students picketed Woolworth stores and "marched" on Washington. Others denounced everything from dull teaching and nuclear testing to compulsory R.O.T.C. and the House Un-American Activities Committee. Last fall both presidential candidates drew enormous crowds of students. For ex-gophers, the trend is "involvementism," and the most startling part of it is a sharp turn to the political right. As Editor Peter Stuart of the Michigan Daily puts it: "The signs point to a revival of interest in individualism and decentralization of power-principles...
...Keys signed on as an oiler aboard the President Wilson, bound for China, and quickly dispensed with nutritional niceties. "The diet was mainly alcohol," he says. "I don't remember eating anything." Back again at Cal, Keys switched to economics, graduated in two years, went to work for Woolworth, quit in boredom after eight months and returned to the university...
...Eleven years later the Ministry of Transport is still over a bank, Atomic Affairs in a hotel, Treasury in a castle on the Rhine. The diplomatic set is even more far-flung- the Russians in a former resort hotel ten miles out of town, the Chileans upstairs over a Woolworth store...