Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jackie Washington, the popular local folksinger who has charged two Boston policemen with brutality, probably will not attend Wednesday's hearing of the Police Review Board, which Police Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara called to consider the singer's complaint...
...year-old performer, an Emerson College senior, was convicted on Dec. 11 of assault and battery against one of the officers who arrested him Dec. 3 for "being abroad in the night-time." Washington's complaint alleges that the policemen, Officers Harvey and John Dailey, violated his rights by arresting him on the "night-time" charge, and brutally beat, him, breaking his nose and twisting his ankle...
...after his conviction, the singer lodged a complaint with Police Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara and petitioned the newly created Boston Police Review Board to hold public hearing on the case. Washington's complaint charged that Officers Robert X. Harvey and John Dailey arrested him illegally, broke his nose, and dislocated his ankle...
...agent or landlord refuses to discuss the matter, the housing aide advises the applicant to file a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. The MCAD may then decide to issue a cease and desist order...
...principle aim of students engaged in civil rights activity is to make victims of discrimination aware of their legal rights. Many states have statutes outlawing biased practices in public services, but often the legal machinery can only be set in motion by the complaint of a citizen...