Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handle dangerous situations between blacks and whites. Blacks in the South, for their part, are arriving at a level of political consciousness ominously parallel to that of Northern ghetto blacks a few years ago, when the era of the big riots began. In mid-May, six blacks died of gunshot wounds during a fiery night in Augusta, Ga., that brought back sickening memories of Watts and Newark. Atlanta, for the moment, is more concerned with the Peachtree Street community of hippies than it is with blacks...
...height, bands of angry blacks roamed the ghetto streets, smashing, burning and looting. Flames from some 50 fires cast an orange glow in the night sky, while the crackle of gunfire, the screams of police and fire sirens tore the air. During the night, six blacks died from gunshot wounds; all of them had been hit in the back. Scores more were injured, three critically, and hundreds were arrested. The first race riot of the '70s had come to Augusta...
Died. H. James Shea Jr., 30, Massachusetts Democratic state legislator who sponsored the bill under which state residents may refuse to fight abroad in undeclared wars, thereby setting up a possible constitutional test of the Viet Nam War; of a single gunshot wound in the head by his own hand (.38 cal. revolver); in Newton, Mass...
...Tuesday morning, six black men had died of gunshot wounds and 60 other people had been injured...
Several student demonstrators suffered gunshot wounds as an additional 600 National Guard troops-supplementing the 1200 guardsmen called up by Ohio governor James A. Rhodes Wednesday-swept repeatedly through the Ohio State campus...