Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRANCISCO, Sept. 29--Rifle-armed National Guardsmen, under orders to "shoot to kill" if attacked, kept an uneasy peace today in riot torn Negro areas of San Francisco...
...before Chicago leaders met his demands. Some members voiced hopes for violence that would tarnish King's philosophy of nonviolence. In anticipation of "the tumult, riot or mob disorder" that might result from the march. Governor Otto Kerner at week's end activated some 2,000 National Guardsmen for duty in Cicero...
...nearly every other week this summer: ¶Roving bands of Negro youths roamed through the Negro section of Dayton-looting, stoning buses and breaking store windows-after a Negro man was fatally wounded by shotgun blasts fired from a passing car containing three white men. Some 1,000 National Guardsmen and several hundred city policemen and sheriff's deputies sealed off the west-side area, which contains about 15,000 of Dayton's 70,000 Negroes, and arrested more than 100 rioters before order was restored. More than 20 persons were injured, most of them whites driving through...
...mayor of Benton Harbor, Mich., a fruit-marketing center of 19,000, declared a state of emergency and 350 Michigan National Guardsmen were put on alert after two nights of violence followed the fatal shooting of a Negro youth by a white man. Negroes had been complaining about lack of recreational facilities and what they called the discourtesy of local police...
...bunnies!" while Judge Cannon watched, almost unbelieving, from the inside. "Nothing is the same any more," he said. Soon, eggs and rocks followed the invective, and the number of hecklers rose to 2,000. On the advice of local authorities, Governor Warren Knowles last week sent in 500 National Guardsmen to protect the demonstrators...