Troops, Gas - or Persuasion? newspaper article from Newsweek from February 1969
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This newspaper article is titled, Troops, Gas - or Persuasion? and if from Newsweek magazine from February 1969. This articles discusses the effect students in support of equality amongst black students and other minority students have on many college campus across the U.S. Colleges and Universities brought up in the article include Columbia, UW Madison, Berkeley, Duke, San Francisco State, City College of New York, and University of Chicago. Forces used to control the crowds included tear gas and bayonets, but students continued boycotts, torchlight marches, and making demands that the college respect them. There are a few images of the events that took place in the news article. In April of 1968, Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated which lead to many students across the country raising up and demanding proper rights. This article touches some events that happened to put colleges and universities to make policy changes. Materials contained within this scrapbook were removed from the original physical scrapbook due to preservation issues. Most documents were originally glued to the pages of the scrapbook, but the glue was failing and the documents were becoming loose and were falling out of the scrapbook. Documents may already have lost their original order and/or may have been lost due to this damage. The damage was getting worse with every use. Therefore, to protect the documents and to facilitate use of the documents, the documents were remove. The documents were left in the order that they were found at the time of removal.
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