Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philip. At the time of the Catonsville caper, he was already awaiting sentence for raiding Baltimore's central draft board and pouring blood on its files. As a "possible danger to the community," U.S. District Judge Edward Northrop ordered him held without bail m the Baltimore County Jail He also sentenced him to six years in a federal prison for the earlier raid. The Berrigans took the judgment in stride. "Maybe one way of getting free these days is going to jail," said Daniel. Added Philip: "Our church is slowly beginning to accept our consciences, if not our acts...
...going to prison as a protest against the draft is a sacrificial act by which one "votes" his own concept of duty to country. Last week more than 100 Woodrow Wilson Fellows from across the nation said that they would not fight. As Stanford Senior Hugh West sees it: "Jail is where patriotism and morality intersect...
...Baptist Church and secretary-treasurer of King's S.C.L.C. While King, with his soaring eloquence and philosophical moorings emerged as the country's leading civil rights figure, Abernathy became the whip of the movement, and his humor and gift for mediation were invaluable. "When we were in jail," recalls Wyatt Tee Walker, once executive director of the S.C.L.C. and now aide to Nelson Rockefeller, "he would organize things, like appointing a cleanup detail. Martin would never go to jail without him." Abernathy was jailed 19 times with his leader. In appreciation of his fidelity, King named Abernathy...
...Jail with Martin...
...defendants, bearing such titles as "Civil Disobedience Against the War" and "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority." Wall challenged the defendants' not-guilty pleas by quoting Dr. Spock, who in December had told FBI men: "I'm well aware that I could wind up in jail because of my illegal activities...