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The trouble started in September when the University announced it would enforce an old rule which prohibits any organization from soliciting funds or membership on campus, and makes participation in illegal off-campus political activity, such as sit-ins, subject to University discipline. Student political leaders claimed that President Kerr...
Perhaps it was this freedom that made Robert Moses, a former Harvard graduate student, leave his teaching job in a New York private school in 1960 and head south. His immediate inspiration was a picture of the student sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The return of the intense, volatile Sadler, 53, came after long talks with Smith, American's real boss, whose pride was hurt when Sadler walked out. Sadler became president of American last January as Smith's heir apparent, quit after repeated run-ins with rival executives. Before he...
From the freedom movement in the South, Day has drawn another element into his campaign: "I call it a new form of political power--the power we've been aware of ever since the sit-ins began four years ago. It is the power of personal witness. This is the...
Day's family moved, he remembers, between Taft and Eisenhower Republicanism. Day was not interested in politics himself until one day in 1960 when, in his capacity as program director for a settlement house in Brooklyn, he joined a picket line in front of a Woolworth store. The store was...