Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro wants social equality, he may earn it by getting off welfare lists, by getting out of taverns, by staying out of jail, staying in school (even a segregated school is better than none at all), by being a responsible citizen...
SAVANNAH, GA. Some 1,000 Negro demonstrators rallied in front of a segregated Holiday Inn motel to chant their demands for equality. Then they moved toward the city jail, where dozens of others, arrested during three weeks of previous demonstrations, were already locked up. City police, reinforced by Georgia state troopers, moved in to break up the march. Pelted with bottles and bricks, the cops retaliated with billy clubs and tear gas, arrested about 275 more Negroes...
...Urban League's executive director, Whitney Young Jr., is unwilling to follow Wilkins' example. "I do not see," he says, "why I should have to go to jail to prove my leadership." Founded in 1910 and mainly supported by white philanthropic funds (notably including the Rockefeller), the Urban League stresses community action, including job training and social welfare programs. The most "professional" of the organizations, the league, with its fulltime, salaried staffers, furnishes research and planning guidance to almost all the other groups...
...SNICK is headed by a 35-year-old Chicagoan named James Forman. With its shock troops heading into Southern towns to start segregation protests and voter-registration drives, SNICK counts success in terms of bloodied noses, beatings at the hands of cops, and days spent by its members in jail. The bigger, better-organized civil rights organizations shudder at SNICK'S bobtail operations. "They don't consult anybody." But for raw courage and persistence, SNICK wins grudging admiration even from its rivals...
...spectator who refused to rise for The Star-Spangled Banner, and the crowd cheered. In Hammond, Ind., a jury took only two minutes to acquit the assassin of an alien who yelled: "To hell with the U.S." In Waterbury, Conn., a salesman was sentenced to six months in jail for remarking that Lenin was "one of the brainiest" of the world's leaders...