Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leslie P. Griffin 70, president of Afro, said that the agreement is not final. "We just felt it wouldn't be to our advantage to stay until they called in the cops." Griffin also said that the demonstrators did not discuss whether to demand amnesty for their action. "The consensus...
Erwin had decided, however, that he had better push down the trees before the injunction went into effect. He was ready at 9 a.m. to attack the trees. Unfortunately for Erwin, a lot of the university shared my feelings about the trees. So there were already hundreds of students out...
ABOUT the time I arrived, Erwin called in an additional force of approximately 30 helmeted Austin police with clubs, 25 state troopers, and a hook-and-ladder fire truck that could reach the tree people. Feeling secure with his 100 cops, Erwin decided it was time to start. He sent...
The cops mounted ladders, climbed up on the fire truck, and rode up in the scoop of the bulldozer to get the tree people. So nobody could complain about particular cops, they all removed their badges and any other source of identification. The most amazing part of the morning was...
THIS WAS the first time anyone had ever used police on this campus on any large scale to suppress dissent (a couple of campus cops had once chased a few people out of the Union who were sleeping there), and the city and state police had always avoided the campus...