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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ALLEN SIGHS RESIGNEDLY when she is asked the Powell question. Yes, she will be protesting. "I'll definitely be wearing an armband and a sticker on my mortarboard," she says, adding "I think the balloon is a stupid idea. It's going to look like a party, not a protest...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Making Her Own Schedule, Setting Her Own Pace | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...June 12, 1968, 292 women--more than three-quarters of them wearing white armbands over their black robes--received their degrees from Harvard. Each white armband was bisected by a black mourning band for King and Kennedy...

Author: By Olivia F. Gentile and Joe Mathews, S | Title: The Activist Class | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

...depositions from a lawsuit filed against Schott by a former employee, several former Reds executives allege that they heard Schott refer to two players as her "million-dollar niggers." She denies using the phrase but admits using the N word. There are also charges that Schott has a swastika armband at home, but she argues that it's "memorabilia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marge's Mouth | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

Powell said that demonstrations might involvethe wearing of an armband or the turning of one'sback during Clark's address. He also speculatedthat 100 to 200 students might refuse to accepttheir diplomas from the Dean...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Vote for Dean Clark To Address Commencement | 5/6/1992 | See Source »

Would a black armband be exempted from official regulations as readily as a yellow ribbon or a flag? So popular is the war effort that the question has not come up yet -- and Marco Lokar did not stay around long enough to raise it. But as people like Lokar and Dunn are finding out, the fewer dissenters there are, the more they need protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's A Grand Old (Politically Correct) Flag | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

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