Word: backings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black voters and labor members turned out in unprecedented numbers for the election-primarily to back in creasingly more daring Howell. Until this summer no state-wide candidate in the Democratic Party had considered himself brave enough to publicly accept the endorsement of the Virginia AFL-CIO or the Negro Voters Crusade. Their backing had been seen previously as the vampire's kiss to any aspirant for public office. This summer, however, they were both prominent in the campaign...
...ALWAYS wanted to answer that we were changing the minds of the ruling class. Teddy looked really sad when we yelled "Sellllll-out!" at him too. The first time a Kennedy had been booed in Boston. Humphrey had even cut his prepared speech to shout back at us. He promised to "do everything in my power to end the war if you elect me President." I had been in the first row and I was sure that Humphrey had looked at me during the yelling and had seen my clenched fist and work shirt with rolled-up sleeves...
Walrus was sitting behind the wooden desk in the front of the office. Before the partitions had fallen, the garage had been divided into a front part, a mimeograph part, a phone part, and a storage part in the back. There was a winding stairway that led to the basement, the scene of all important group meetings...
...community feeling in the Resistance were probably more convincing than the war as reasons to hand in your draft cards. Almost everone later decided that there were better places to fight the war than jail. The people who didn't receive 4-F's or 1-Y's took back their 2-S's. It was easy to say that the whole strategy of the Resistance about filling the jails to end the war was wrong. It was good to have a handy rationalization around...
...have given everything and I want something back," he yells after the nurse, once she has finished with him. "My country owes me something, because I have nothing," he screams. But he is yelling into nothingness, and there is nothing for him to do but either pull himself together or howl into the night...