Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 150 lawyers went to Chicago Monday to picket the court where the lawyers' cases were to be heard. Although the judge announced he was dropping the charges, 75 of the lawyers petitioned the District Court to move the trial to a larger room so that they could sit in on the proceedings. The request was denied...
...hope is that this demonstration will be such a step forward in clarity of position and size as will create a mood for action," one spokesman said. The demonstration-to be directed against "imperalist research"-may be a building occupation or an obstructive picket line. High school organizing is also going on, and an effort will be made to have high school students take action the day following the demonstration. A mass march through Cambridge or Boston is planned for the end of the week...
...Hampton area-Norfolk with its massive shipyards, Virginia Beach, Newport News, and Hampton-at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay has all the problems of any industrial urban area of the nation. Despite cooperation along the picket lines in an anti-racist strike at the shipyards two years ago, tension was high between working class whites and blacks last summer...
Before I knew it. I was on strike myself, having been taught at an early age never to cross a picket line and the lesson having stuck. I wondered for a spell whether a New York City teacher ought to adhere to this rule, but then sat back and proceeded to enjoy the prospect of not attending classes-in contrast to Harvard-per-usual, where I failed to attend them but got depressed about it. As the next logical step. I began to absorb the issues of the strike-ROTC. Afro-American Studies, expansion-and could see nothing objectionable...
Died. Betty Gram Swing, 76, longtime champion of women's rights; of heart disease; in Norwalk, Conn. A leader of the National Women's Party, Mrs. Swing was a familiar figure in picket lines on both sides of the Atlantic during and after World War I. Arrested for leading a suffragette demonstration at the White House in 1917, she countered by staging an eight-day hunger strike in jail, was released and immediately got herself arrested again in Boston. In the 1920s she carried her campaign to France (jail again) and to England, where she enlisted Bertrand Russell...