Word: protested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turning point came in the summer of 1969 in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, when 400 gays flooded the streets for several nights to protest police raids on the Stonewall Inn, a homosexual bar on Christopher Street. The anti-Viet Nam, civil rights and women's rights movements all helped galvanize gays into thinking that they, too, could make a claim on society for recognition of their basic rights and point of view. Since then, the gay rights movement has impressed the nation's consciousness strongly enough to gain an ironic tribute: the rise of an alarmed, organized and vehement opposition...
...Campus, the swing back away from the upset and disillusionment of the period remembered as "the Sixties" but more properly identified as the late '60s and early '70s. (1961, after all, was the year of the Latin Riots at Harvard, when students marched, chanting "Latin Si! Pusey No!", to protest then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28's decision to grant degrees in English rather than Latin. 1962 was the year of American Graffitti--where were...
...current Mood on Campus isn't total apathy. That was proven by the march and midnight rally of 3500 undergraduates last spring to protest Harvard's holdings in corporations doing business in racist South Africa. But when the Harvard Corporation budges only a little, students aren't willing to take the step to violence, to physical expulsion of deans or Corporation officials. Brandeis had a building takeover this spring; Harvard probably won't, even though student demands on South Africa aren't being...
...self-respecting members of the Harvard community. While continuing to help cripple the black community in South Africa, Harvard is now threatening ato cripple its own black community with the dissolution of the Afro-American Studies Dept. Indeed the boycott planned for Monday, April 23, 1979 to protest the racism that Harvard shows both at home and abroad is not "devoid of meaning," for the issues of divestiture and the Afro-Am Dept. are inter-related. To describe the threat to the department as a "hot issue" is to undermine the needs and feeling of Harvard's black community...
...issue that struck at the heart of most students, and indeed triggered the protest for many, was the University's continuing involvement with the Reserve Officer Training Corps. ROTC symbolized, for many, the University's complicity in an evil war--the financial link to the military, the conduit for Harvard students into the war itself, was so direct, so tangible, that it became the focus for the anti-war protests on campus. As time passed, more and more students accepted the arguments of the activists in SDS: ROTC must go. The Faculty, led by then-President Nathan M. Pusey...