Word: firebrand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter of months, Brown established himself as a firebrand of the black movement. "We must wage guerrilla warfare on the honky white man," he preached in Jersey City. A week later in Cambridge, Md., amid racial tension, he declared: "If America doesn't come around, then black people are going to burn it down." After parts of Cambridge did indeed burn down that July of 1967, Brown was charged with inciting to riot and arson. He vanished in March 1970 while out on $10,000 bail, shortly after a bomb blast killed two of his associates while they were...
...date, over 20,000 Protestant workers assembled in a Belfast park to hear calls for "lead bullets, not rubber ones"-a reference to the rubber bullets the British soldiers use in trying to restore order. The crowd cheered wildly as the Rev. Ian Paisley, the province's Protestant firebrand, flailed the air and announced formation among Protestant loyalists of a civil defense corps...
Last week's incidents brought the three-week death toll to 30. The tough "provisional" wing of the I.R.A. admitted responsibility for the electricity-board bombing and claimed it had given the board's management time to evacuate all employees. But to the firebrand Protestant extremist...
Born. To Bernadette Devlin, 24, Irish Catholic firebrand from the barricades of Bogside, who now has the dual distinction of being both the youngest member of Britain's Parliament and its first unwed mother: her first child, a daughter. Though still refusing to name the father, Bernadette bubbled, "I'm just like any other mother-I think my baby's beautiful...
After her firebrand activities on behalf of Northern Ireland's Catholic minority, Bernadette Devlin, 23, the youngest member of the British House of Commons, would hardly seem to need more publicity. Yet last week Bernadette, who is unmarried, went out of her way to disclose to the press that she expects a baby in the fall. She refused to name the father. "I do not expect it to be easy," she admitted, "some people might want to see me hide and sulk. Others might feel that they were owed some explanation. But my morals," she insisted, "are a private...