Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time in 128 years, Baltimore was without a newspaper. After six weeks of name-calling negotiations, the 728-man Newspaper Guild struck the Sun. The paper managed to limp along for three days last week with a skeleton staff. Then the drivers and printers refused to cross the picket lines; and the morning, evening and Sunday Suns were forced to shut down. Baltimore's only other paper, Hearst's News-American, also closed down in support...
Civil rights advocates among the clergy who prefer picket lines to preaching are skeptical about the worth of Billy's Southern crusade. "I think my ministry is a little bit different from marching," answers Billy, who believes that the church must cleanse itself before attacking secular ills. "I've said often that the most segregated hour of the week is 11 o'clock Sunday morning. We can't point an accusing finger at the secular world when the churches are not integrated...
Since then, said Hare, "we have been subjected to something fantastic and terroristic. Many self-anointed saints took it upon themselves to come here to help us solve our problems. Many of the ministers of the Gospel who came here would do well to stack their picket signs and get back in the pulpit." Integration, he said, "will solve no social problems; it will probably create them. It is just one of those things we have got to live through. It may be pretty rough living." But rough as it had been, he sighed, Selma's whites had "shown...
Instead, the organizers concentrated on a primarily physical demonstration. Their idea was to have as many people as possible picket the White House and march to the Capitol, and thus to demonstrate to the President, Congress, and the American public the size of the anti-war sentiment in the nation...
...only tense moment of Saturday's demonstrations came late in the morning when police suddenly refused to allow students with picket signs to cross East Executive Ave. which passes beside the White House. The demonstrators protested the order and started across the street, yelling for pickets to charge the police. As police began to push the students back to the curb, the order was rescinded