{"id":357,"date":"2026-03-26T15:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/umbc50\/?page_id=357"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:51:59","slug":"earth-day-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/umbc50\/home\/themes\/student-activism\/earth-day-demonstration\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/UARC-Photos-09-01-0140-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/UARC-Photos-09-01-0140-720x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Black-and-white photograph of a student protest\" class=\"wp-image-119\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.703125;width:259px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/umbc50\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/UARC-Photos-09-01-0140-720x1024.jpg 720w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/umbc50\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/UARC-Photos-09-01-0140-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/umbc50\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/UARC-Photos-09-01-0140-768x1093.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/umbc50\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/UARC-Photos-09-01-0140-1080x1536.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/umbc50\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/UARC-Photos-09-01-0140-1439x2048.jpg 1439w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/umbc50\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/UARC-Photos-09-01-0140-1200x1707.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/umbc50\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/UARC-Photos-09-01-0140-1980x2817.jpg 1980w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/umbc50\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/UARC-Photos-09-01-0140-scaled.jpg 1799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Earth Day Demonstration, UARCPhotos-09-01; UARC Photos-09-01-0140<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The New Democratic Coalition, a regional political group, sponsored environmental awareness activities during April and May 1970. Speakers included Biological Sciences Department professors Robert Burchard and Bob Platt. On Earth Day, Students demonstrated in front of Hillcrest Building and aired their concerns.\u00a0<em>The Retriever<\/em>\u00a0published a schedule of events that included the headline: \u201c\u2019Death\u2019 is spelled P-O-L-L-U-T-I-O-N.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Democratic Coalition, a regional political group, sponsored environmental awareness activities during April and May 1970. Speakers included Biological Sciences Department professors Robert Burchard and Bob Platt. On Earth Day, Students demonstrated in front of Hillcrest Building and aired their concerns.\u00a0The Retriever\u00a0published a schedule of events that included the headline: \u201c\u2019Death\u2019 is spelled P-O-L-L-U-T-I-O-N.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":351,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-357","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/umbc50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/umbc50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/umbc50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/umbc50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/umbc50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/umbc50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/umbc50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/357\/revisions\/525"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/umbc50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/umbc50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}