Student Strike Spring 1970

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Student Strike photograph from the Echo, Spring 1970, taken by Mike Harvey '72. The National Student Association declared a student strike across the nation when President Nixon sent U.S. troops into Cambodia in 1970, escalating the war in Southeast Asia. A few days after student protesters at Kent State were fired upon and killed, Colby students staged a nonviolent protest, marching from the campus to the Waterville Post Office and joined the nation-wide student strike.

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Title: Student Strike Spring 1970
Creator: Havey, Michael
Creation Date: circa 1970
Subject Date: circa 1970
Town: Waterville
County: Kennebec
State: ME
Media: black and white photograph
Dimensions (cm): 24.2 x 19.1
Local Code: Stack 2 Photography Collection; Box marked Caleb Cooks, folder 1 (black) student protest
Object Type: Image

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5150 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, ME 04901
(207) 872-3284
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LC Subject Headings

Demonstrations--Maine--Waterville
Student movements--Maine--Waterville
Colby College--People
Protest movements--Maine--Waterville

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anti-war march
student protests

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