Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they had been worked out over a long period of time as could easily be seen from the infamous way in which the chairman himself had been involved. The way in which this serious study group was broken up in what can only be described as a type of "mob" violence, on however limited a scale, is a very black mark against almost any student body, in continuance of their liberal tradition, will themselves respond to this threat and will prevent a recurrence of tonight's events. Robert A. Weil...
Intransigence & Righteousness. The college today can look back on some turbulent early days. Oberlin was a way station on the Underground Railway, and once a sizable faculty mob swarmed ten miles to free a runaway slave from a U.S. marshal. Something in the air fed intransigence; fire-breathing Feminist Lucy Stone was a graduate (1847), and later Oberlin's rich soil of righteousness produced the Anti-Saloon League. Present-day manifestations are less obvious: a bluntly worded faculty defense of academic freedom, a tone of ineffable moral superiority in the student newspaper's lectures to the college administration...
...streets and sidewalks of the little square behind the Statler were jammed with a great ranging mob of citizens...
Siegenthaler, a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean, cited occurrences in Nashville as fairly typical of what has been happening in the South. There was no real trouble until mob leaders such as John Kasper began to preach resistance to the Supreme Court...
...Prior to the bombing," he said, "crowds had mobbed the streets outsid the school, and police had seemed reluctant to take any action. But once the bomb went off and Nashville became subject to national ridicule, police came out of their lethargy and cracked down on mob violence...