Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...POLICE blocked off North Harvard Street from the Business School to Western Avenue. Two police paddy wagons stood ominously in front of some old buildings, across from the Harvard University Press. A crowd of people lined the far side of the street and some pressed around Mrs. Zalesky who had just been kicked out of her house. "Only in America," she said, "Only in America...
After she left, the crowd turned to watch the moving of the Redgate's furniture into trucks which supposedly then took it to a warehouse. The windows and doors of Redgate's store, which was next to their house, had been boarded...
...crowd grew and people began to mumble to each other. Except for the TV producers and the blue-coated representatives of the power structure, they were from the lower class, white and over 30. There were a lot of faded blue and green overalls. The outsiders wore suits...
...happen to me." One lady, Miss Irenic Burns, had come over from South Cove where she said she was faced with a similar situation. "This was what the Jews did to the Arabs," she said. She looked out to the Street, "All those cops for two old ladies." The crowd appeared to resent the police, but the police did not seem to be enjoying their job. One man pointed out that they were only doing a task they hated. If they refused to do it, they could be fired...
...Bless America," sang the people in the crowd...