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Hace 1 día · Across the country, college and university students have established Gaza Solidarity Encampments on their campuses to protest what they see as their institutions’ complicity in Israel’s indiscriminate warfare against Gaza, only to be met in some cases with police repression, arrests, and violence. These encampments can be seen as part of a ...
Hace 2 días · Tom Hayden, later Senator Hayden, was in the immense crowd that heard King that day. After being inspired by Jack Kerouac’s On The Road to hitchhike across America, Hayden became a Civil Rights activist and spent some time in jail. There he drafted what would become the 1962 Port Huron Statement, a manifesto for Students for a Democratic Society:
Hace 1 día · Along with more than 700 or so other protesters, including Abbie Hoffman and Tom Hayden – who coined the slogan “Create two, three, many Columbias” – I was arrested on the Columbia campus ...
Hace 2 días · In 1962, Hayden wrote that universities had forsaken the “liberating heritage of higher learning.”. In the ensuing decade, students revived it. Then it declined again, hampered by our fear of each other. We must work hard — and work together — to win it back. While protests of the Vietnam era were a “contest of ideas,” maintaining a ...
Hace 4 días · The rally itself occurred on September 29 of that year, and featured speeches from Fonda, folk singer Holly Near, anti-war activist and former California state senator Tom Hayden, and a Vietnamese girl named Li-On Thieu. Activist and former California state senator Tom Hayden, 1976. Photo by William S. Murphy via Wikimedia Commons.
Hace 1 día · The chief inspiration for both SDS and the PHS was the civil rights movement, particularly as represented by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). SNCC supplied both animating spirit and brave souls for the sit-ins that, beginning in North Carolina in February 1960, signaled the emergence within the movement of a more confrontational style of activism.
Hace 1 día · The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country. The movement had its origins in the Reconstruction era during the late 19th century and had its modern roots in the 1940s, although the movement made its largest legislative gains in the 1960s after ...
