student protests

Question 1

reasons for unprecedented numbers of student protests during the 60’s?

Answer 1

• Kennedy “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”
• influence of CRM
• being treated like kids by college authorities

Question 2

what protest occurred in Michigan 1962?

Answer 2

SNCC and CORE met at Port Hurton Michigan and protested for a changing political and social system

Question 3

what sparked protests at columbia uni ?

Answer 3

• students were against supporting and offering research for weapons in the Vietnam war
• prejudice against Hispanic students who had to go through a separate door to get tot the gym “gym crow”

Question 4

?what did students do at the columbia uni

Answer 4

scattered pictures of Malcolm X around the uni

Question 5

when was the Berkeley free speech movement?

Answer 5

1964 December at the university California at Berkeley

Question 6

who was the key speaker at the Berkeley movement?

Answer 6

Mario Savio