Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student with a stomach full of bullets will probably cause few of your readers the grief it deserves, and the casual tone of your reporting exemplifies the attitude with which many Americans will view this event. It is hard to believe that people will accept the maiming and possible murder of youth under the pretense of justice; certainly the students could have committed no crime equal to this...
...that lingers is one he went far toward creating during the last few months of his life: war critic, champion of the black and the Mexican-American, crusader for the very young, the very old, and all those who have been shunted aside from social and economic progress. His murder gave a new poignancy-and a new political legitimacy-to the people and the causes he sponsored and sheltered. "His death," said Hubert Humphrey recently, "may very well have changed the whole political direction of the country...
...vast majority of Denver's elementary schools are de facto segregated. Almost two-thirds of the white pupils attend schools that are more than 85% white; in predominantly black schools, the pupils are rapidly falling behind in their studies. Goaded by the murder of Martin Luther King last year, the Denver school board sought a drastic remedy: make each Denver school reflect the overall ethnic composition of the city's 96,000 pupils-65% white, 20% Mexican-American and 15% Negro...
Died. Robert W. Goodman, 54, father of Andrew Goodman, one of three civil rights workers slain in Mississippi in 1964, whose dignity in the days following his son's murder helped inspire the moderate groundswell of opinion that rallied to the civil rights movement; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Said Goodman at the time: "Our grief, though personal, belongs to the nation. The values our son expressed in his simple action of going to Mississippi are still the bonds that bind this nation together...
...Wales this July 1. But the protests all seemed more bark than bite. Now nine Welshmen are on trial for organizing a paramilitary outfit called the Free Wales Army, and last week the court was told of a document found in the home of one defendant detailing plans to murder young Charles "if necessary" to prevent his investiture at Caernarvon Castle. Unmoved, Charles maintained his royal composure and went about his studies of Welsh language and history at the University College of Wales...