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...minutes later, marchers began throwing rocks at windows of cars and houses lining Beacon St. NAC members acting as marshals ran through the crowd urging the rock throwers to wait. The rocks stopped...
...here was the make-up of the crowd. In Washington, the demonstrators had been Weathermen, their allied groups and close followers. Here, the ranks included younger teen-agers (the high-school revolutionaries all those books are being written about), many non-students, teeny-bopper girls, and ghetto blacks. Weathermen, NAC people and the like were present, but in the minority...
Many of the marchers were high-school students and street people from communities around Boston like Fall River, Lowell, Dedham. NAC members had been organizing them during the winter. These were kids who had no trouble regarding cops as the enemy, who had no reticence about fighting and breaking windows. Abbie Hoffman had asked at the big rally at the Common, "How many here are going to rock the cradle and how many are going to cradle that rock?" These kids were ready...
After a minute, a NAC marshal came up and shouted angrily. "This is the front, huh? What's happen...
Marshais scurried back from the sound truck, which again urged the marchers to cool it. NAC members began rapping with the kids throwing rocks, explaining that Central Square was not a good target. A few kept throwing rocks, and the crowd began chanting "Cool it-Cool it-Cool it" as the body of the march passed through the square...