Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy had to defend his Catholicism before skeptical Protestant ministers in Houston during the 1960 presidential campaign. But many of those clergymen were Southern Baptists, who do not belong to the Texas Council of Churches, although they attended the founding ceremonies as observers. As it happened, the only picket line formed was for a social, not a religious protest; it consisted of some 80 Mexican-Americans, who were angered at the sudden dismissal of a popular minister who had been assigned by the Texas Council to work for rural self-determination in the Rio Grande Valley. The protesters were quickly...
JANUARY 14 -- X trundles out in the snows of reading period to urge the faculty voting on punishment for the ROTC sit-in to "Kick the Fags Out of Harvard." Other picket signs read "Nuke the Pukes" (referring to the nickname for non-jocks at Columbia during the time of the revolt), "We're with you, Sam Huntington" (mentioning the name of the author of the CEP ROTC resolution), and "Send the anarchists to Vietnam" (fine irony in this last...
...student said after returning to classes Monday, "Like when you have two or three grand pigs out there, hell, I'm game. They were handing out sandwiches and beer on the picket lines. But like no pigs, and pftz, there's no excitement...
Black students understood their mass of student support far better than anyone else in Wisconsin last week. Madison students will turn out in hundreds to picket and march, and in thousands to watch the National Guard. Confrontation politics, however, is as popular as Wisconsin's 0 and 17 football team. The week-long meeting between police and students approached confrontation often, but it never came...
...tactics for last Thursday were similar to those of the rest of the week. They called for three groups of students--one to picket classes, one to march in front of the chancellor's office, and one to move around on streets blocking traffic. The blacks gave only three direct instructions, "Remain mobile, don't panic, don't get maced." Students were supposed to show their numbers but not to demonstrate their force, for the blacks needed only numbers to win the psychological battle with the university over the popularity of their demands...