Word: mob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHICAGO. Oct. 9-A disciplined mob of demonstrators led by Weathermen rampaged through downtown Chicago late last night., fighting with police and breaking windows in cars and buildings. Several demonstrators were reported wounded by police birdshot and pistol fire; the Associated Press reported at least 40 arrested...
...mob, numbering between 300 and 600, suddenly charged into the streets, throwing bottles and sticks, after a 7 p.m. rally in Lincoln Park. Many had come prepared with helmets, leather jackets, hard boots, and sticks...
Police were circling the area in unmarked cars and motorcycles. Following the recommendations of the Walker and Kerner Reports, police maintained minimum visibility and maximum numbers. They did not mass in sufficient numbers to stop the mob, which had apparently surprised the police by fleeing quickly from Lincoln Park...
...intersection, a car with four middle-aged men pulled up behind the fleeing mob and beat several straggling demonstrators...
...know, the skins of those thin-legged little girls who faced the mob in Little Rock marked them as Negro, but the spirit which directed their feet is the old uni versal urge toward freedom...