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The Blockade of Euclid Avenue
For those of you tuning in from my piece in The Observer, this is actually part of one of two in a series about activism at Case Western Reserve. And without further ado...
A typical day on Euclid Avenue will see hundreds of students crossing to and from the Main Quad. These miniature mobs can hold up traffic coming from Adelbert Road, but only briefly. This was not the case on May 5th of 1970, when over 2,000 people blockaded the intersection. This was not people trying to get somewhere on time; this was a message. This was protest.