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Sit-in
1960: Black students sit at whites-only lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi.
Building takeover
1964: Berkeley students rally for free speech.
Teach-in
1965: sds drops knowledge on U Mich.
Draft-card burning
1965: Cal students say hell no to Vietnam.
Nationwide student strike
1970: Kent State shootings inspire weeks of class cutting.
Divestment from South Africa
1977: Hampshire College pulls out.
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First daughter arrest
1987: Amy Carter busted for U Mass anti-cia break-in.
Booze riot
1991: 1,000 University of Hartford students battle cops over a confiscated beer keg.
Political smart mob
1999: Anti-wto protesters hit Seattle, cell phones in hand.
Netroots organizing
2003: Students for Dean website goes up.
Darfur divestment
2005: Harvard pulls its money from Sudan; 61 schools follow suit.
Congressperson discovers Facebook
2008: Rep. Greg Harris (D-Ill.) enlists a Lake Forest College sophomore's 9,000-strong Facebook group to support his pro-civil-union bill.
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