Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro kook at all but a New York rookie cop. Last summer he was taken from his classes at the police academy, ordered to infiltrate left-wing groups like the Black Liberation Front that at the time were suspected of fomenting Harlem riots. Wood spent hours plodding picket lines and insulting cops, managed to gain Collier's confidence, and joined the conspirators' inner circle. He kept a daily diary of the lunatic schemings. Soon, every detail of the plot was known to New York cops, the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...
...Students for a Democratic Society plan to picket Boston firms that trade with South Africa and will stage a sit-in at the First National Bank of Boston on March 19 to protest U.S. economic involvement in South Africa...
...flyer handed out by the pickets decried the film as "despicable" anti-Negro racist propaganda," and urged that it be banned in Massachusetts. The picket signs read "Offensive to Negro Actress" and "This is Boston--Not Mississippi...
...McDonald, Abel represented the forces that want to take unionism back to the bad old days, to the picket lines, bloody street fights, and a blind, unimaginative refusal to accept any of the compromises that are necessary to responsible collective bargaining...
...would hire Negroes at all, used to go for light-complexioned ones, he observes. "Now they want the blackest faces they can find, and they put them all up in the front of the office." Only the weather bureau, in his view, is behind the times. Gregory threatens to picket the place unless the next hurricane is named some thing like Beulah...