Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IN Chicago, during the Democratic National Convention last August, two American rights collided headon: the acknowledged right to dissent within certain limits, and the equally valid right of a city to protect its citizens and its property. But what limits? And what kind of protection? Americans and the rest of...
The staff interviewers encountered some eloquence and much searing memory. During most of the traumatic week of the convention, a Los Angeles police inspector who was present as an observer thought that "the restraint of the police, both as individual members and as an organization, was beyond reason." But of...
The report also places the start of the confrontation considerably earlier than the convention week-there had been riots in Chicago's black ghettos in 1966 and again in April 1968, after the murder of Martin Luther King. Mayor Daley's own riot-study committee (Daniel Walker was...
A spokesman for the convention said yesterday that the second session would have "a more program-oriented approach than the first convention," explaining that the coordinating committee will report on the progress of its negotiations, and probably suggest some specific programs as goals for the convention, he said. The meeting...
At the coordinating committee's request the City Council has passed a number of resolutions giving top priority to construction of low-rent housing by City agencies. It also has set up a special citizens committee--half of whose members are chosen by the housing convention, and half by the...