Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scarcely above the Manhattan rooftops when the mob began pouring out of the decaying tenements on the Lower East Side-ragged, shouting, weaponed with sticks, iron bars and brickbats. By midmorning, the crowd had moved across Broadway, filled Eighth and Ninth Avenues, descended on the 47th Street Army draft-board headquarters and set it afire...
Dead Rabbits. This well-researched book provides the fullest account ever given of the bloody five days of rioting that broke out in New York City in July 1863. The troubles are usually described as "draft riots." But Author McCague, a novelist and historian (Fiddle Hill, Moguls and Iron Men), makes it clear that the causes ran far deeper than rebellion against the Conscription Act. As with the riots more than a century later in Washington, Detroit and Watts, there was no single cause that provoked the poor and dispossessed. One essential difference was that the angry and resentful people...
...ways, his papist religion and his uncouth brogue, the average Irish immigrant had to work at the most menial and degrading jobs, and he lived in desperate resentment. He certainly had no stake in the Civil War; indeed, it was the news that he would be subjected to a draft lottery, while well-heeled citizens could buy exemption for $300, that finally sparked frustration into rage and sent him into the streets...
...spokesman for the Selective Service announced Wednesday that the draft call for those two months would be limited to the pool of 90,000 men. This is a temporary economy measure necessitated by Congressional action requiring reductions in federal spending...
...Lewis Hershey, director of the Selective Service, sent out an order June 30 to all draft boards that they schedule no pre-induction physicals for September, and none except those already scheduled for August...