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Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Engineers Cleveland...
Cars were overturned, bottles whizzed through the air, fires lighted the night for looters picking their way through the tawdry little stores along Roxbury's main street. Gangs of youths taunted firemen who responded to alarms, 50 of them false; one firefighter received a bullet in his hand for his pains. More than 30 policemen were injured, along with scores of rioters. At the height of the violence, 1,600 Boston bluecoats were sent in to saturate the five-block area. By the end of the third night, 63 people had been arrested...
General Motors sent home 4,000 day-shift workers from its Linden, N.J., plant and canceled operations at five other facilities. Laboratories, factories and offices throughout the heavily industrialized region also shut down. Schoolchildren got an unexpected holiday; police and firemen were called in for emergency shifts. At a Wilmington medical center, a 10-lb. 2-oz. boy was born by flashlight...
...almost unique among Northern cities with large Negro populations in that it had experienced no riots or other serious racial outbreaks. Even last summer when relatively minor incidents triggered violence across the country, Boston and Roxbury weathered problems that elsewhere would have easily provoked violence. Late in the suumer, firemen turned their hoses during two consecutive nights on demonstrators who had built a bonfire to protest inadequate street-cleaning. Not many days later, police shot down an unarmed teenager on Blue Hill Ave. Both times there was talk of riot, but quiet action by the heads of local organizations with...
...fire company answered a false alarm--one of the many reported during the night--but this one was special. As the firemen arrived they were pelted with bricks and bottles. Then shots rang out from a rooftop, and one fire lieutenant was shot through the wrist. The sniper was not caught...