Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ugliness. In Tuscaloosa, Ala., one of the most bizarre incidents took place-indicating, if nothing else, how civil rights tensions may lead to ugly misunderstandings. Actor Jack Palance, his wife Virginia, and their three children, in Tuscaloosa to visit relatives, had a narrow escape from a mob when they went to a movie. Earlier in the day, Palance had signed autographs for both whites and blacks. When he and his family entered the newly desegregated Druid Theater, a rumor spread that a Negro woman had accompanied them. As it turned out, there were no Negroes in the theater...
...frenzy by a California rabble-rouser named Connie Lynch, who cried: "I favor violence to preserve the white race any time, any place, anywhere. Now I grant you, some niggers are gonna get killed in the process, but when war's on, that's what happens." The mob surged forth, threw itself at 250 civil rights demonstrators. For 15 minutes, a pitched battle was waged. Police tried to stop it but were overwhelmed by the mob. Finally the Negroes retreated, taking along 40 wounded...
Bear with Us. The result is a pace of life twice as dizzying as New York, thrice as noisy as Chicago. Each evening, out of nowhere, a mob of workmen materializes on a downtown street...
...despot." When Pope John XXIII, in his Mater et Magistra encyclical, seemed to be saying that a little socialism was not necessarily bad, Buckley, a Roman Catholic, attacked the encyclical as "a venture in triviality." He also objected to last summer's Freedom March on Washington: "Mob-deployment in circumstances that call for thought and discussion is a dangerous resort...
...ashes. The three drove a mile down the road to the farmhouse of Junior Roosevelt Cole, 58, a Negro and lay leader of the church, who told them that on the night of the fire he was dragged from his car in the churchyard and clubbed unconscious by a mob of whites. Schwerner asked Cole to come to Meridian Tuesday. "We want to get this fire business straightened out," Schwerner told him. "We want to stop all this...