Word: bradleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bradley was then arrested, charged with vandalism and released on his own recognizance...
...last month in San Francisco, the Sparts gained national attention and support when one member of the Spartacus League, Ritchie Bradley, climbed the flag pole and tore a Confederate Flag down from above the San Francisco Civic Center, and threw it to the ground, where a crowd of 100 burned it. Bradley was wearing the uniform of the Union Army and climbed a pole that was more than 40 feet high, while demonstrators reportedly chanted. "The flag of slavery flies no more Time to finish the Civil...
...Bradley climbed the flagpole in San Francisco again later last month--to replace the Confederate flag with the historic 33-star Fort Sumter garrison flag, donated to the city to celebrate the removal of the flag. Mayor Dianne Feinstein ordered that flag removed. Later, under recommendation of Wallace Levine, head of the Veterans Affairs Council, the Mayor agreed to fly the "California Hundred" flag, in honor of the first 100 California Volunteers who paid their way east to fight against slaveowners...
Such a backlash would confirm the worst fears of many mainstream black leaders, who feel that Jackson is ill-versed in the delicate art of building interracial coalitions. Jackson has never held an elected office. Whereas mayors like Young and Bradley needed to court white votes to win elections, Jackson has opted for confrontation, forging all-black protest blocs to demand concessions. At Operation PUSH, he organized boycotts of white businesses in order to win more contracts and jobs for minorities. In the process he was able to wring concessions from such companies as Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola and Kentucky...
...pair of Republicans, Congressman Jack Kemp of New York and Senator Robert Kasten of Wisconsin, are preparing a bill similar in many ways to the Bradley-Gephardt plan, but the top rate would be 25% instead of 30%. Says Kemp: "I think the chances are fifty-fifty we'll pass something...