Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once the riots began, Conot says, violence was turned against not white people but white property. One woman, carrying a TV set from a pawnshop, explained: "It just hit me I been paying $25 a month for three years on a bunch o' furniture that cost me no more than $300 to start with, so the least they can do for me is give me a TV." Conot's characters-from Frye through Williams to the well-meaning but ineffectual welfare workers and Negro intellectuals-all appear beset by a sense of corrosive despair, which rendered them incapable...
...fire until it had practically burned out, leveling a school, a church, a motel and a tavern. When sobbing Negro women begged Police Chief Brice Kinnamon to send the firemen in, he snapped: "You people ought to have done something before this. You stood by and let a bunch of goddam hoodlums come in here...
...ruins of his motel, Hansell Greene, 58, stood sobbing. "I'm broke, I'm beat, and my own people did it," he said. "It's all gone because of a bunch of hoodlums. I spent a lifetime building this up, and now it's all gone." Across the street, his brother's grocery also lay in smoking ruins...
...post office and is slowly getting ready to move out. He gets destroyed while the pimps and whores go on." Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox promptly made Moynihan sound prophetic. Said Maddox of the Newark and Detroit riots: "You can't say 'please' to a bunch of savages, rapists and murderers...
...murder has placed him at the top alone-until George ("Bugs") Moran begins muscling in on Chicago's North Side. "I want that son of a bitch hit!" rages Al, and assigns exterminators to get rid of the Bugs in his operation. On Feb. 14, a bunch of thugs dressed as cops enter Moran's garage and gun down everyone-except Moran, who happens to be off the premises. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre arouses public indignation. Thus begins the long Chicago cleanup and Capone's downfall...