Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five Harvard students went to Florida for Spring vacation--not to the beaches of Daytona, but to St. Augustine's segregated jail...
...waiting line soon formed outside the jail as demonstrators waited to be processed. Since bail money could not be raised, people were not released until late Thursday night, when a judge ruled that the sheriff had to accept bondsmen's bond in lieu of cash bail...
...that people can kill their political opponents." He laughed off the party's "pitiful" distortion of Hegel's dictum that freedom is the acceptance of necessity. Said Havemann: "One cannot attain freedom by doing 'voluntarily' what one must do in order to stay out of jail." As for capitalism, Havemann said that new traits make it "by no means all negative," and called for comparable Communist freedom to encourage "dissatisfaction with things as they...
Anti-Everything. Apparently unbothered by the verbal brickbats, Belli went right on talking. He professed to be worried that Ruby might be murdered in jail. "Then they would make it appear a suicide and this vicious city would have him off their hands." He called Dallas "antiSemitic, antiscience, anti-American, anti-everything," and said he wanted to "get that stinking Dallas out of my nose...
...visitors and they wanted to hear the London Royal Philharmonic when it came to town last November. But the town was Jackson, Miss., where concerts are still segregated, and tickets are sold by subscription only-to the right people. Instead of getting into the hall, the boys landed in jail because they insisted they had a right to hear the performance. The affair was hardly noticed at the time, but by last week it had become the inspiration for a cause celebre: one after another, the nation's leading concert artists were joining a boycott of the segregated South...