Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm failed in the Depression, and when Chavez was ten, the family packed everything it owned into a decrepit automobile and headed across the Colorado River into California. In Oxnard, Chavez's father found work threshing lima beans; when all the beans were harvested, the family took off, looking for other jobs and often turning up just a few days after a crop...
...somewhat paranoic, the worst of it all is the heavy pressure now being applied against the organization. Police and FBI informants have infiltrated many campus chapters. S.D.S. militants at Columbia and Dartmouth have been jailed; narcotics and bomb-plot charges have been brought against members in New York, Colorado and Pennsylvania. In recent months, six of S.D.S.'s twelve regional offices have been vandalized and files burned or stolen. Four different congressional committees have announced plans to investigate the group. The growing official hostility partly explains why S.D.S. was refused meeting facilities at 60 colleges, camps and halls before...
...father, an immigrant miner from Wales, was blacklisted by his company's management for his role in a bitter, late-19th century strike John L. quit school before he finished the eighth grade, and by age 15 he had followed his father to the pits. In Colorado he mined coal. Then it was copper in Montana, silver in Utah, gold in Arizona. In 1911, Lewis went to work for Samuel Gompers, then president of the American Federation of Labor and the greatest labor tactician of the era. Because he could back his sharp tongue with a strong...
...National Education Association, most legislatures have ignored the reasons for student protest in favor of simply halting it. At least eleven states have passed new laws aimed at curbing campus disruptions, although not all the bills have yet been signed by the respective Governors. These states are Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin and South Carolina, where the bill provides for the immediate expulsion of disrupters after a hearing. Oklahoma's law (now signed) specifies that persons convicted of inciting riots can be imprisoned for ten years...
Several states have passed laws aimed at keeping nonstudent agitators off campus. The legislatures of Colorado, Oklahoma, Maryland and Tennessee have approved bills that apply private trespass rules to public campuses, or otherwise control the presence of nonstudents. Tennessee's law makes it a felony for nonstudents to enter school property "to incite, participate in, aid or assist a riot." Possible penalty: five years in the state penitentiary...