Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were mostly spontaneous, some highly selective arson campaigns were apparently planned to destroy stores' credit records and give ghetto residents a financial reprieve. "Don't grab the groceries," one mother told her son, "grab the book." Many apparently also grabbed cash. Said Chicago's Cook County jail warden Winston Moore: "Never have I seen such rich prisoners." The average adult looter arrested in his territory, according to Moore, had $300 to $400 on his person, and even youngsters "had over $100 on them...
...unjust and immoral." I can say, without qualification, that I despise the war and hate to see anyone going off to fight in it. At the same time, beyond the means suggested in Conrad Lyn's well-known book, the consequences of refusal to comply with the draft are jail or exile...
...NEGRO IN AMERICA (from Birmingham jail, 1963): Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands...
...money is also spent on efforts to cut down juvenile delinquency; it pays half the salary of the plainclothes detectives who are stationed in every junior and senior high school to spot troublemakers and keep them in line. The foundation supports high school courses for prisoners in the county jail, runs the nation's largest Big Brother agency, in which some 900 men become companions of fatherless kids. A high school course on unwed motherhood progresses, logically, to a course on planned parenthood...
...businessmen among you," it reads, "to pledge to hire draft resisters when they begin to return from jail. We ask the lawyers among you to pledge your legal aid. We ask all of you to pledge your generous financial suport...