Word: bullhorns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening later in the week, James Forman, executive secretary of SNCC, borrowed Lackey's bullhorn to quiet a restless mob outside the Jackson Street Baptist Church. When he bitterly criticized the police chief for calling in the posse, Lackey, who had been standing on the edge of the crowd, hesitated for a moment and then strode up to Forman...
When the Negro columns came within 100 yards, a state police officer ordered the troopers to put on their gas masks. At 25 yards, the Negroes halted. State Police Major John Cloud barked through a bullhorn: "Turn around and go back to your church! You will not be allowed to march any further! You've got two minutes to disperse...
...they had. Confronted by the police barrier, King stopped the procession as planned. Troop Major John Cloud raised his bullhorn and said: "I ask you to stop this march. You will not continue-you are ordered to stop and stand where you are." King asked Cloud if it was all right to "have some of the great religious leaders of our nation lead us in prayer." When permission was granted, King motioned to his longtime friend, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. As hundreds in the parade knelt in the sunlight, Abernathy intoned: "We come to present our bodies as a living...
...Nightmare of Stupidity." Using a bullhorn, Marion Police Chief T. O. Harris told the Negroes: "This is an unlawful assembly. You are hereby ordered to disperse. Go home or go back in the church." Some Negroes kept walking. The cops surged forward. Some Negroes ran, tried to take refuge in Mac's Cafe, about a block from the church. State troopers crashed in after them. One Negro, Jimmy Lee Jackson, made a break for the door, was shot in the stomach, taken to a hospital in critical condition. In all, more than a dozen Negroes, including six women, were...
Speaking through a bullhorn, a series of nine speakers warned and harangued a crowd of over 200 cold and wet spectators for over an hour that "the only thing the United States can do to end the war in Vietnam is withdraw, totally and completely. It is not a question of what is strategically right, but rather what is morally right...