Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the marchers were college students from more than 75 campuses from to California. With them on the six-block-long picket line were civil rights workers, high school students from Mississippi, mothers wheeling baby carriages, and a group of 70 scientists from the Rockefeller Institute...
Saturday's demonstration began at when about 100 students arrived the White House to picket. By 11 the ranks had swelled to well over . The picket line two blocks St.--the length of the Treasury department building--around Pennsyl- House, then up 17th St. for two blocks vania Avenue in front of the White beside the Executive Office Building...
Shortly after these meetings Stillman, representing the "Boston Committee to End U.S. Support of Apartheid," wrote to the companies urging them to withdraw support from the South African economy. In addition he told them that his group planned to picket the two firms on March...
...over in ten minutes. Shoes, jackets, pools of blood, torn picket signs, plastic helmets--all these remained in the wake of the people. Grass lawns were torn up and the excited horses left dung on porches and in the streets. Now the people walked back to the Jackson St. Church. A Negro man clutched his head and moaned repeatedly while his friends helped him walk. Two white boys clutched handkerchiefs to stem the flow of blood from their faces. Two people remained behind, unconscious; the police put them in ambulances...
...Decatur St., where the beatings had begun, Lackey's policemen sat down on the grass by the curb and began to eat sandwich lunches. Other officers cleaned up. Picket signs, shoes, a braid torn from a girl's head, and other articles were carried away. Kuromiya's blood was washed into the gutter...