Word: fehsenfeld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hour after the Guard pulled out of Cambridge, early last week, militants pressured her into agreeing to a new demonstration. Eleven Negro and white demonstrators marched downtown and tried to push into a café called Dizzyland, operated by a vociferous segregationist by the name of Robert Fehsenfeld...
...fleshy six-footer, Fehsenfeld blocked the doorway of Dizzyland with his own bulk. The demonstrators knelt on the sidewalk, prayed and sang. A crowd gathered to jeer the Negroes and cheer Fehsenfeld. Inspired, Fehsenfeld kicked a few demonstrators, picked up a Negro girl and dragged her away from the door, smashed an egg on the head of a white demonstrator...
During the next few days, tension wound tighter in Cambridge. Gunshots rang out in the night. Negro and white mobs glared at each other in the streets. Late in the week demonstrators again descended upon Dizzyland. This time Fehsenfeld was not standing in the doorway, and a few demonstrators walked inside. "You are not wanted in here," cried Fehsenfeld. "Understand, you come in here at your own risk." Then he locked his door. The demonstrators looked around-and got a grim surprise. Waiting in the restaurant were more than a dozen white toughs. They charged into the demonstrators and beat...