HIST 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cuban Missile Crisis, Excomm, Arms Race
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They knew they could get arrested for violating the law. They bring back more and more students over a 1000 students join them in demonstration. It spreads to the south: college students all over start protesting. The movement spreads: turning point in the civil rights struggle college students have infused youth into the movement & expanded the number of demonstrators, students from the north join students in the south and participate, White allies join black men and women in protests: broadened the civil rights struggle for immigration. Announced that protests (non-violent civil disobedience) will be the means for challenging segregation in society: student non-violent coordinating committee (cid:523)sncc or (cid:498)snick(cid:499)(cid:524) Members established college branches throughout the country. They were committed to civil rights, immigration and peaceful. New age group forces two presidential candidates to address the question of race in america. America wins the cold war (vague promises about being tough on.
