Word: firemen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...family he was going to town because he was curious to see what would happen after the Negro sit-in attempts. The bullet hit Link in the head. He died on the way to a hospital in Winston-Salem, 20 miles away. State troopers had joined Lexington police and firemen by then. Using fire hoses, they drove away the crowd. Next day seven young Lexington Negroes and twelve whites were arrested. Police said the Negroes were armed with a zip gun, a shotgun and a sawed-off .22 caliber rifle...
...this situation. Why, oh why, do you condone mob violence by the Negroes and yet deplore mob violence by whites? No reference was made by your reporter to the pillaging and looting of a private store by Negroes before they unmercifully burned this store and then stoned the firemen in an attempt to prevent them from controlling the fire. Mob violence under any guise or for any cause, just or unjust, is tragic and criminal...
...Saturday night rioting broke out after the May 17 TIME had gone to press, but an account was included in most copies: "Thousands of enraged Negroes surged through the streets, flinging bricks, brandishing knives . . . put a torch to a white man's delicatessen, fought off firemen as they arrived to put out the blaze...
...neighborhood swarmed with outraged Negroes. In the streets and from rooftops, several hundred Negroes hurled stones and bottles at police, as two dozen patrol cars with four dog teams screamed into the area. Negro vandals broke into a tavern, stole whisky and beer, started a fire, and then stoned firemen who answered the alarm...
...violation and provocation [by Negroes]." All well and good. But how has the News used its influence since segregation tensions began mounting last month? By burying most stories of the situation on its inside pages. Last week, after more than 2.000 rock-throwing Negroes clashed with hundreds of Alabama firemen, policemen and highway patrolmen in the worst melee of all, the News at last found room on Page One for a riot story. The headline: SYRIA IN SIXTH