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In 1969, 43 students at Southern Colorado State College protested Coors by blocking people at a local pub from ordering Coors beer. 15 of the students were arrested, and the college later filed a restraining order against the protestors. The same year, the boycott grew nationwide, with the national chapter of the American GI Forum instituting a ...
On October 6, 1969, the statue commemorating the policemen killed in the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago was blown up by a group including William Ayers. [7] The blast broke nearly 100 windows and scattered pieces of the statue onto the Kennedy Expressway below; [ 8 ] no one was ever arrested for the bombing. [ 9 ]
As protests by college students against the war in Gaza continue, Flashback republishes an account of one of Detroit’s largest peace rallies. From the Free Press archive: In 1969, thousands ...
Brown, who was 25 years old in 1969, was a former divinity student who had worked hard as a campaign volunteer for Senator McCarthy in 1968, developed the concept of the moratorium protests. [5] Brown felt that protests should take place in communities rather than on university campuses so that "the heartland folks felt it belonged to them". [5]
Pages in category "1969 protests" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Pages in category "1969 riots" ... 1968–1969 Japanese university protests; K. Kisumu massacre; M. Murray-Hill riot; N. 1969 Northern Ireland riots; R. 1969 race ...
A year later, in October 1967, a recruitment visit by Dow Chemicals, which supplied napalm to the military, was interrupted by protests. The Harvard Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs drew particular attention, with sit-ins disrupting their meetings.
Free the Presidio 27 - April 5 1969 New York City Peach March. The Presidio mutiny was the first of a number of protests and riots that drew attention to anti-war dissent within the military. [1] The Presidio 27 were supported broadly within the growing anti-Vietnam War movement.