Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although nearly half the crowd seemed to be merely sympathetic onlookers, like the crowds at the 1968 convention, almost everyone joined in the chants calling for Bobby Seale's release and victory for the NLF.
Although estimates vary widely as to how many youths gathered on the broad avenue on the edge of the Federal Triangle area of Washington, it seems reasonable to say that between 10,000 and 20,000 were there. In any case, the crowd was larger than that at any demonstration...
The marchers demanded an end to the Chicago trial of the eight people charged with conspiracy to riot at last year's Democratic National Convention. They also demanded the freeing of Bobby Seale, one of the eight, who was sentenced to four years in jail for contempt of court in...
The attrition is growing. Late last month, at its annual convention in Columbus, Ohio, the A.C.C.C. went so far as to repudiate its founder. Mclntire was pointedly not returned to the council's executive committee, on which he has sat for 28 years. The convention also passed a resolution...
Mclntire is not giving up by any manner of means. More than 600 radio stations carry his weekday "20th century Reformation" broadcasts. He says that he is forming a rival right-wing group to the A.C.C.C. that he will call the American Christian Action Council. And he controls the small...