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...were run down by a panicky white driver, a white soldier was beaten by a group of angry blacks and a disastrous demonstration resulted in the arrest of 140 blacks -71 men and 69 women. The presence of black women probably spurred the black men on. Says Colonel William McKean, the post commander: "If I could have separated the girls from the guys during that demonstration, they would have gone home in a minute...
...dress regulations relating to Afros and dashikis. Although many of the complaints were dealt with over the same weekend that the uprising occurred, a muttering mob began to congregate on the athletic field Monday morning. At least 150 black men and women had assembled by the time Colonel McKean arrived with two carloads of brass, as requested by the blacks. It was a doomed colloquy. A white race-relations officer and a black major were both shouted down. When Beverly Bradford, a white reporter for the Anniston Star, was discovered in the midst of the WACs, she was subjected...
...meeting-if it could be called that -completely fell apart, and McKean brought in the MPs. No force was used, thanks partly to the efforts of some black MPs, but the 140 who were arrested were taken to the city and county jails because McClellan has no stockade...
...Colonel McKean has made sincere efforts to ameliorate racial problems; singlehanded, he forced the local Boy Scouts to integrate by refusing to allow McClellan Scouts to attend a summer camp that excluded blacks. He finds the latest events fearfully frustrating. "I constantly hear about what it's like growing up in a black ghetto," he says. "I can't talk to them about 400 years of bondage, goddammit. I want to know what's wrong now." If an officer like McKean cannot find the answer, the incident at Anniston will not be the last...
...Education School's Student-Faculty Committee on Discipline has completed its face-finding report in the case of first-year student John McKean '70, and has submitted its recommendations to Dana Cotton. acting dean of the Ed School. McKean said last night that he expects to be told of the Ed School Committee's findings on Wednesday, when he has an appointment with Cotton...