Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bitter Retort. Tuskegee city officials, backed by most of the community's citizens, protested Wallace's action as an "invasion." But the high school stayed shut-and Wallace ordered most of his troopers to move on to Birmingham, where integration was supposed to start on Wednesday. As the...
Overalls & Ivy. Even so, as of 7:30 on the morning of the great day, there were probably more cops than marchers on the assembly grounds around the Washington Monument. The District of Columbia's police chief, Robert V. Murray, had assembled a force of 5,900 men -including...
If violence were to occur, it would probably have been set off by a scruffy-looking bunch of about 50 white men who stood across 15th Street from the Monument grounds, staring balefully at the assembling civil rights marchers. These were members of the nitwit American Nazi Party, led by...
Salt & Pepper. At the Memorial, the first order of business was a program of professional entertainment. Folk Singers Joan Baez, Josh White, Odetta, Bob Dylan, Peter-Paul-and-Mary rendered hymns and civil rights songs. Actor Marlon Brando brandished an electric cattle prod of the sort sometimes used by cops...
The ineptitude of the police is a sharp reversal of the days of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, when Venezuelan cops, although quick to torture political prisoners, at least caught crooks and hoodlums. But after the revolution of 1958, Venezuelans-fed up with ten years of police...