Word: marches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems strange, looking back on it, that the Washington cops should seem different to me from other cops. The night before the Saturday march I was gassed seven times in Dupont Circle, and I had two more encounters with the green stuff later Saturday afternoon. I had been gassed in Chicago; there I hated the cops with every ounce of passion I could muster. I still...
Much of the credit for the attitude of the Washington cops lies with Mayor Walter Washington, who must have sympathized with the purpose of the march and must have withstood a terrible struggle for power with Nixon men like Richard Klcindeinst...
...march was a failure in the sense that it didn't stop the war. Nixon and his cronies expected at least 200,000 marchers before the November 3 speech. The size of the crowd was no surprise and will not affect the course...
...march, however, was more than just an effort to stop the war. It was the first political convention of the subculture. As such, it was an astounding success. It gave one a sense of solidarity and a feeling of belonging; and a sense of overriding futility...
Then it happened again. With remarkable ease the police routed 10,000 in front of the Justice Department. Marshals shouldn't have tried to stop the militants. The marshals' job was finished at 3. They had proved that we could all march together. The Justice Department action only served to split the marchers into opposed factions, an eternal bane of left wing crusades...