Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surely, there are better ways for a man of God to promote integration than to incite a mob to violence, or throw rocks at law officers, or lie in the way of bulldozers. I only wish that he could have added to his "fierce sense of indignation" a finer sense of spiritual direction...
...went to the World's Fair in New York, watched a whiz-bang fireworks display in his honor outside a Chicago hotel, was nearly swamped by a shoulder-deep mob of schoolchildren in South Bend...
Instantly, half a dozen men charged past police, attacked White and knocked out some of his teeth before he was rescued. The mob bombarded the cops again for nearly two hours, until police finally drove most of the demonstrators away. Then, as it drew dark, gangs returned to the neighborhood, smashed car windows, overturned a truck and beat the driver, fought police, shattered nearby shopwindows and looted the stores. City officials cracked down, outlawed all picketing and public demonstrations, and postponed any further construction work at the school until a committee named by the school board and civil rights groups...
Next day Klunder and about 1,000 other demonstrators returned to the school. Already awaiting them were dozens of Cleveland cops in a glowering cordon around the site. The inflamed mob threw rocks, bricks, bottles and chunks of cement at the policemen. Charging under a storm of stones, the demonstrators repeatedly tried to break through the lines. Thirteen persons-eight of them cops-were hurt. Twenty-six were arrested...
...discovers that he had not just taken his Negro girl for a mistress; he had married her. As outraged as any of his supporters at this breach in the code, Abigail's husband does what he has to do: he leaves her, abandons his campaign, and leads a mob to burn Grandfather Howland's barn to the ground...