Student power - 'a bastard offspring'
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Student power - 'a bastard offspring'
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page 183 from Cornhusker Volume 63, 1969
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1969
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vote, thema nd their "Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee."
The Old South rose up and showed 'em, however, bumped off three of 'em and proved that wise-acre kids from Connecticut couldn't move in and run their affairs.
But doggone it those Nigger-lovin' kids had LEARNED soemthin' from the broken ribs and the logn marches andthe singing and pretty soon they started thinking they could tell the whole world what to do and that maybe they should stop singing and sart punching and just at the same time the blacks quit turning the other cheek the students learned to do the same and then all hell busted loose.
The Non was gone and SNCC became SVCC and the blacks started helping themselves thank-you and the Yankee kids took on the whole kid-and caboodle.
"We'll cuss if we please," said Mario Savio. "Build your gymnasium over our dead bodies." said Mark Rudd. "We've got 'em all running scared," said Carl Davidson.
But that was the TV version again.
Behind all the hoopla and the sit-ins and the wild clothes and the pit-taunting, the demand went all the way back to John Locke, as interpreted by Tom Paine.
Justice, not sooner or later or after the war, but NOW! That's what it is all about.
The students of the 60's began tot realize that despite all their apparent advantages, they had a great
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Author: Jack Todd
Title: "Student power-'a bastard offspring'"
Periodical: 1969 Cornhusker Volume 63
pages: 182-185
1969
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