Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About 175 members of the Organization for Black Unity left University Hall at 2:30 p.m. yesterday after occupying the building for six hours. The students-all black-left the building to the sound of beating war drums after OBU president Phillip Lee, a third-year Law student, signed an agreement with Archibald Cox, professor of Law and University spokesman...
...Indignant Eye by Ralph E. Shilces. 439 pages. Beacon. $12.50. From Hieronymus Bosch to Picasso, the author explores the lives and times of famous artists and the hot issues that caused them to turn their hands to political cartoon, savage caricature and posterish polemic. Hundreds of black-and-white illustrations do justice to the likes of Jacques Callot, Lucas Cranach, George Cruikshank, Daumier, Courbet, Rouault, Käthe Kollwitz and George Grosz. Fascinating, especially for an age of rage, despair and pungent partisanship...
...honeycomb.) The illustrations are shaggy dog in style, but accompanying quotations from naturalists, explorers and novelists can be stern indeed. Thus Admiral Jaacob van Neck on the dodo bird, circa 1598: "They have thick heads only partially covered with feathers and in place of wings only a few black feathers. We called them DISGUSTING BIRDS, because the longer their flesh is cooked the more unpalatable it becomes." Sic transit dodo...
Before voting, they heard Gene Jones, a Boston Black Panther leader, urge support for a Panther demonstration this Saturday at the JFK building protesting the killings of two Panther leaders Wednesday night in Chicago...
...leader of the Black Panthers in Illinois and another party member were killed yesterday during a predawn shootout between nine Panthers and the Chicago police...