Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Malcolm triggermen were after him. "We are innocent of Malcolm's death," he said. "Malcolm died of his own preaching. He preached violence, and violence took him away." Despite Elijah's protestations of Black Muslim innocence, New York police arrested and charged with Malcolm's murder a Negro named Norman 3X Butler, described as a Black Muslim enforcer. When arrested, Norman 3X was free on $10,000 bail in the nonfatal January shooting in New York of another Black Muslim defector...
Before him were indictments against 17 men, including a sheriff and a deputy, in connection with the murder last June near Philadelphia, Miss., of three civil rights workers. One charge, a felony, was for conspiracy to deprive the victims of their constitutional rights to life and liberty without due process of law. A second charge, a misdemeanor, was for violation of the victims' civil rights...
Later Casement investigated conditions on the rubber plantations of the Putumayo Valley in Peru and found horrors of mutilation and murder even more shocking than those of the Congo. He was a man of passionate idealism and undoubted courage. Joseph Conrad thought him "a limpid personality" with "a touch of the conquistador in him." After Casement resigned from the consular service in 1913, he was caught up in Ireland's seething demand for home rule, denouncing Britain as the "bitch and harlot of the North...
...among the era's loudest liberals. He toiled for the N.A.A.C.P., helped found the American Civil Liberties Union. In the fledgling New Republic, he flayed the conservative Supreme Court for blocking urgently needed social and economic legislation. In 1927, he horrified proper Bostonians by attacking the murder case against Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti as "a farrago of misquotations, misrepresentations, suppressions and mutilations." Irate alumni nearly got Frankfurter fired, but Harvard could hardly dump a man whom Justice Louis D. Brandeis called "the most useful lawyer in the United States...
Despite his experience, Sigauke retains his original idealism. Frelimo will not engage in terrorism and the murder of civilians, he says, "not because it would give us a bad image, but because it is wrong." "We fear racism," he adds. "We have known long enough the miseries of division. You cannot expect us to want to continue them ourselves." As for the future, "there will always be a place for the white man in Mozambique," he says adding softly, "Portugal is a poor country, we cannot expect them all to stay at home...