Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know why. Everybody else does." Adlai decided not to pursue the subject, advised Mrs. Frederickson, "Well, just don't hit anybody." Stevenson then moved through the yelping pickets and headed toward his car. A young man spat on him. A policeman moved in to arrest him, and the fellow spat on him too. Stevenson kept moving, climbed into a car and left Dallas' adult delinquents behind...
...acts of violence led to telegrams of protest to state government officials by Henry and Robert Moses, Aaron's campaign manager. They had already protested the arrest of several Yale students during the last week. At least five Yale students and two other members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee were arrested on various charges...
Harassment of Henry's political organization has become particularly severe in the last several days. According to Michael L. Sayer '61, who is in Mississippi, "It is almost impossible for campaign workers to leave their offices anywhere in the state without the fear of being arrested. We expect arrest every three or four months...
...intended to walk into the white downtown area. But the cops stopped us long before we reached it. When they came down on us, I watched Knight's reaction, and I could see that it was painful for him to submit to the roughing up and the arrest without a fight...
...release seemed like a triumph. But right away we saw we were living in the same old Albany. As in every demonstration over the last two years, the Albany cops had swept us off the streets as fast as we had appeared (the charges: disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, assault, attempted murder, parading without a permit, running a red-light), the one white newspaper had made no report, and thought it had legal sanction to act (the first amendment to the Constitution, section 242 of the U.S. Criminal Code), the Federal Government had made no move to protect the rights...