Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means to achieve Black Power are revolutionary. The Negro is to use whatever tactics he is willing to take the consequences for, and this includes block voting, a general strike, or molotov cocktails. Carmichael is careful to dispel another myth--nonviolence, which he says the press attributed to SNCC. "We preach nonviolence among ourselves, but that's as far as it goes," Carmichael said. "They [the whites] don't tell you about the time we marched in Lawrence County with 900 armed men--they didn't mess with us," he added...
...Perth Amboy, N.J. (pop. 39,000), a police arrest was followed by four nights of disquiet among the city's 7,000 Puerto Ricans, during which police claimed to have been attacked with rocks, bottles and Molotov cocktails. A Puerto Rican spokesman charged, however, that "it was the police who rioted" by seizing innocent people in the streets. Either way, city officials promised to consider rescinding an antiloitering ordinance that many Puerto Ricans resented...
...almost geometric progression, spread ing west and south to cover an area eight miles square. Negroes stopped automobiles driven by whites and beat the occupants. Small gangs pillaged scores of shops. They hurled fire bombs, rocks and chunks of masonry at the firemen who responded to the alarms. As Molotov cocktails burst in one drugstore window, a Negro woman emerged, weep ing. "Why would they do this to their own people?" she asked. "The world's gone...
...Floyd McKissick, an impassioned advocate of "Black power," linked arms last week at a Chicago rally to preach comity within the Negro movement. Both leaders agreed that the Negro could best achieve his social and economic goals by peaceable means. "Our power," declared King, "does not reside in Molotov cocktails, rifles, knives and bricks." And yet, as in Harlem in 1964 and in Watts last year, the hatred and frustration of the Negro slum dweller erupted in an insensate wave of violence that filled Chicago's near West Side streets with the wordless roar...
...Depraved Insanity." Minnesota-born Gus Hall, 55, the party's longtime "leading spokesman," delivered a three-hour, 30,000-word harangue that sounded strangely like a Molotov jeremiad from the '50s. He denounced the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam as "coldblooded imperialist aggression," "depraved insanity" and, in what was doubtless intended as the most formidable indictment of all, "moral degeneracy with no bottom." Then, contending that the party had "fought its way out of political isolation," he commanded the comrades to unite in a popular front with Vietnik and Negro groups to achieve "left unity...