Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mistake. Strange, a gas-station attendant with an arrest record for assault and weapons offenses, was accused of being the trigger man in the July 15 murder of Willie Brewster, 38, a Negro. Brewster belonged to no civil rights organizations, walked no picket lines, enjoyed a reputation as a hardworking family man who wasn't even "uppity." His mistake was to be caught driving home from work with three friends an hour after the Anniston courthouse had been the scene of a hate rally by the National States Rights Party. Party leaders had openly preached violence...
...Cessna 180 piloted by Roman Catholic Priest Keith Kenny swooped low over the San Joaquin valley vineyards outside Delano, Calif. Through a bullhorn another priest, the Rev. Arnold Meagher, shouted to the cluster of Mexican grape pickers below: "Huelga! Strike! Respect the picket lines. Don't be strikebreakers...
...Greater Boston Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam will picket Humphrey's speech. Sixteen organizations, including the May 2nd Movement. Students for a Democratic Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Socialist Alliance, will participate...
Mary claims absolute disinterest in the 9-to-5 life-"the little house with the white picket fence and the roses"-and she made dozens of campaign speeches for John (a chore that Jackie abjured). Mary usually says what she thinks-bluntly. Once, as she and some friends were scanning a fulsome magazine piece about her husband, she snapped: "That's not the man I sleep with...
...beginning, it has often been said, augurs the end. Certainly the axiom proved true of the New York World's Fair. It opened to disappointing crowds on a cold, rainy day in April 1964, with militant CORE picket lines all but blocking major avenues and hecklers disrupting President Johnson's send-off speech. Last week it closed with a frightening scene straight out of a Federico Fellini film fantasy...