Word: campus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cabbie was reportedly shot around 4:30 a.m. About two hours earlier city police allegedly chased some molotov cocktail-carrying youths near the campus. Although police did not apprehend anyone on the scene they claimed they recognized Gary Keel, a Knoxville College student, as being a member of the group seen transporting the cocktails...
City police uncustomarily came on campus and arrested Keel. Several students attest that police manhandled them. Arnsel Collier, in a complaint filed with the FBI said a policeman, "grabbed me by my arms and started kicking me on my hips." Two days later, the other two students were arrested...
...then moved from the men's dormitories to the women's dorms. No effort was made to lure women outside. Speakers simply told of what had taken place. At this time the crowd then split into several factions. Curtis Johnson, chairman of the Student Social Action Committee (SSAC), a campus black power oriented group, went to the city jail and arrived at the same time as did the college president...
About 30 minutes later a Checker cab driven by Boruff entered the front portion of the campus. Some students testify that Boruff was asked to leave while the campus was amid turmoil. Boruff, they report, continued driving. Coming to a second group of students some say Boruff was chased. Others say he tried to run over students, then was chased. Neither version has been confirmed...
Boruff radioed his employer, Checker Cab Company, for help. Police wanted to invade the campus immediately but Curtis Johnson and Dr. Owens argued against it. They felt it would only cause more trouble. The police finally agreed not to enter the campus when Owens said Knoxville College would pay for any damages done to the cab. In April's Southern Patriot, Mike Friedman, an instructor at the college, said this possibly prevented "a bloodier Orangeburg...