Word: cafes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro woodcutter who lived with his mother, his sister and his grandfather on a patch of red-clay soil outside Marion, Ala. One night last month Jackson, 26, joined a Negro demonstration in Marion. When cops began breaking it up, he and some other Negroes sought refuge in a cafe. State police went in after them. In the melee Jackson was shot in the stomach, and died eight days later...
Jackson and his mother took refuge with other Negroes in a nearby cafe. According to Mrs. Jackson, the troopers "came in saying, 'If you don't live here, get out.' Two of them hit me on my head. They knocked me down and started beating me on the floor." Jackson attacked the men who were beating his mother, and one of the troopers fired a revolver into his stomach. The wounded man fled from the cafe, ran half a block, and was overtaken and beaten in front of the post office. He died in a Selma hospital...
...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 treated for injuries...
...white knight, the matchmaker, and the childlike philosopher, is Countess Aurelie, Ghailot's elderly madwoman. While sitting at a Parisian cafe, Aurelie overhears a company president, a baron, and a prospector discussing plans to tap the seas of oil that, they are sure, lie under Paris's streets. The Countess is at first natively ignorant of the uses of oil, but when she learns of the industrialists' evil lust for power, and is told how oil can give them that power, she crushes them, madly. She tries them, in absentia, condemns them, and executes them by luring all the advocates...
...convinced that poverty equals purity, he points out, are called "ethnic artists," and "ethnic," he explains, "means you make less than $10,000 a year." Rose is 27, and has all the equipment needed to make a great deal more. He usually works at Greenwich Village's Gaslight Cafe, but this week he will open at the Blue Dog in Baltimore...