Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nadji Daifallah, who are two official martyrs to the union, were killed. One young woman, Marta Rodriguez who used to drop by the Ortizes' home on some evenings, was beaten and arrested during this strike. Francisco Ortiz told me how he was arrested during that summer and kept in jail in a crowded cell for sixteen days, fed on cold rice and water, and allowed to wear only his underwear. Josefina Ortiz was sprayed with a pesticide while on a picket and she developed a sore that took three years to heal...
Apartheid requires rigid classification of races and a host of humiliating laws to back it up. Every South African is registered by race: white, Coloured, Asian or African. Skilled jobs are frequently reserved for whites. Marriage or sexual relations across the color line are illegal, with long jail sentences attached. Africans may only go to special "Bantu" schools, designed to train them as servants in white-owned in dustry; blacks must pay for their education, while whites get it free. "Bantu Education" features classes in housework and 60 children to a classroom...
...Suppression of Communism Acts, which define any attempt to change the status quo as "communist." Under such laws, the African National Congress of South Africa--the party of national liberation--was outlawed in 1960, and many opposition leaders--among them Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Bram Fischer--sent to jail for life...
...Roxie Hart, a "foxy lady" who has one of her many affairs with a furniture salesman, shoots him in a rage and then talks her compliant husband into confessing to the murder. He blows her cover, however, and Roxie finds herself in the friendly confines of the Cook County Jail where the lady inmates, fresh from the opening and most impressive number entitled "All That Jazz", dance cell-door-in-hand to the beat of "Cell Block Tango...
...function better than we otherwise might have in the new endeavors we now pursued." Mitford went on to publish an impressive series of books, including one that exposed the corruption of the American undertaking business, and another widely-praised work on the prison system (she went to jail for a spell as part of her research), and to get involved in the anti-war movement...