Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first, the Brooklyn group's effort seemed about to live up to its nightmarish prospects. Early in the morning, some demonstrators tried to keep a subway train from moving by holding the doors open. A cop batted their hands with his night stick, the doors closed, and the train moved...
...length he gave up. "I think the police have done an excellent job," he said, obviously deflated. "I've never seen traffic run so smooth." Returning to his Brooklyn headquarters, Galamison tried to figure out some face-saving ploy. "Should we try to regroup?" he asked plaintively. "Regroup what?" retorted Comedian Gregory...
...dreamed up the idea of getting slum residents to dump their garbage on the steps of Brooklyn's Borough Hall. Also involved was Brooklyn Negro Minister Milton A. Galamison, 41, who tried to paralyze the New York City school system with two boycotts early this year...
More responsible civil rights advocates publicly washed their hands of the Brooklyn militants. CORE'S National Director James Farmer, himself a rough-tough fighter who had plans of his own for demonstrations on the fairgrounds, suspended Brunson's chapter from the national organization. The Queens district attorney got a court injunction against the stall-in. President Johnson and key members of the U.S. Senate warned that demonstrations of that kind would serve only to stiffen opposition to civil rights progress...
...open the fair did, despite the abortive effort by CORE'S Brooklyn chapter to jam up all the approaches with stalled cars and subways. And it was very close to the readiness Fair Boss Robert Moses had prophesied all along. Externally, only a handful of buildings were not complete, ranging from the exposed rafters of the Belgian Village to a few forlorn steel girders sticking out of the ground at the site of the Hall of Science...