Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard, since a leisurely pace on any road in that province is an invitation to attack. He passed two lightly manned government roadblocks, ignoring signals to turn back. At length he came to another roadblock, this one held by four Viet Cong. As Grainger tried to race through the block, a hand grenade landed in the road in front of the truck and exploded, shattering the back window. Cut by flying glass and shrapnel, Grainger slammed on the brakes, tried to turn the truck around. But blinded by his own blood, he backed up instead into a roadside canal...
Most of the marchers were college students from more than 75 campuses from to California. With them on the six-block-long picket line were civil rights workers, high school students from Mississippi, mothers wheeling baby carriages, and a group of 70 scientists from the Rockefeller Institute...
...answers they got generally concerned small and immediate problems: "The landlord won't fix the stairs;" "We should have a stop sign on the corner." When the same problem occurred several times within one block, the workers usually convinced a few neighbors to present a joint petition to their landlord or to city officials. Often they were successful; John M. Mendeloff '67 proudly tells visitors, "That's our sign," as he passes one stop sign in the nine-block triangle in which the Center operates...
...this method proved a deadend. The volunteers had neither the time nor the experience to transform a stop-sign protest into full-fledged organization on each street. And each block remained a separate unit, rather than fusing into a larger movement...
Graham, whom the State Legislature of South Carolina has banned from its state universities for having praised Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, criticized mass movements and marches which dangerously block bridges and roads. "Highways have been integrated for 100 years," he quipped...