Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late meeting of 250 ?AC members in the student center around 2 a. m., support for militant action today appeared to be waning. Protestors decided to split up and canvass in area high schools and colleges to explain the NAC demands and bring people to a final march Saturday from Government Center to the Boston induction center...
...Although the Harvard Moratorium Committee is directing its efforts towards the November 15 march on the Pentagon, it has not yet planned specific measures. However, it will leaflet and canvass in the interim...
...will probably hold a general meeting within the next week to discuss interim action. They have already planned to canvass, and to hold a high school, college student strike on November 14 in support of the march...
People were sent out not only to homes and apartment buildings, but to gas stations, shopping centers, and MBTA stops. The Law School had its own canvass project to leaflet commuters which began at 6 a.m. and ran until about 10 a.m. This group involved about 600 volunteers...
Although the canvass stayed in Cambridge this time, Miss Blanc hopes that in November volunteers will go to other working class areas because she feels "Cambridge has reached the saturation point...