Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Previous successful non-violent protests no doubt encouraged the Negroes to undertake new demonstrations. Most notable of the earlier successes was the 1956 Montgomery bus boycott, which also marked the emergence of strong magnetic leadership--an essential factor in the success of any sustained social movement. In the Montgomery conflict, Martin Luther King came to embody the ethic, the youth, the drive of the Negroes' protest. Although King was not on the scent in the early...
...were initiated by college students, picketing dime stores in their college towns. Although later joined by large numbers of working-class Negroes, college students were the logical initiators of the new social protest for a variety of reasons...
...that on paper their degrees should entitle them to positions of responsibility and respect in the community. Yet in the South their expectation almost invariably met frustration. In a similar fashion college students in the 'thirties were faced with an unpredictable future and became active in liberal and radical protest movements, many of whose flavor and tactics paralleled those...
Members of a protest group put themselves in danger of suffering for their actions. Where households are involved, the threat of economic sanctions and physical violence is potentially overwhelming. The college student, away from his family, with no dependents of his own, and not yet tied to a position in the market structure of the community, is probably the freest political being in the society. Ideologically, he is in a college or university community, the one institution which takes most seriously the ethos of the society. Politically, he lives on campuses with others of identical interests. In most cases, because...
Walter J. Bate, Chairman of the Department, admitted that he receives complaints about omitted courses every year, but claimed that the level of protest was not significantly higher this fall. He pointed out that English instructors generally double up, teaching different courses in alternate years. Tutorial for credit knocks off two courses from the number that Honors candidates must take, Bate argued, and there is "not much duplication" among middle-group courses presently offered...