Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like it. I'm here to listen to these fools lie about how they're going to help Negroes." Then, somehow, the quiet marble halls, polished floors, the measured speech now being given by a liberal Northern Republican seemed unreal. More real were the memory of demonstrations, picket lines, sweat, nausea too often denied, six dead Negro children, Birmingham, freedom songs; despair when quiet and sophisticated friends were caught up in the storm of revolt and swept into the movement on waves of emotion and hate; the endless search for identity, truth, meaning, love and hate shared with Negroes...
Police hauled the three out of the picket line a few minutes later and gave them a lengthy lecture...
...speak against violence this summer. Everyone headed south is opposed to it but convinced nevertheless that Mississippi will be a bloodbath. The fact is that the struggle of black Americans has evoked commitment from young white liberals unparalleled since the cold war began. In the North believers can picket, petition, and learn that to confuse the names of black fellow-workers is the worst disgrace in the civil rights code...
Five dissident Ec 1 students stood in the rain in front of Sanders Wednesday declaring they would picket lectures until the lighting situation had been improved. A recent HCUA study claimed the lighting in Sanders, as measured by a high-power light meter, was far below the legal standards of the Massachusetts Public Safety Board...
Like the great Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, the New York World's Fair unveiled the wonderful wizardry of a materialistic age, as Bell Telephone Company, IBM, General Electric, and an exhibit appropriately called "The Festival of Gas" tried to out-automate one another. The ever-present picket lines were themselves a prime exhibit, however, raising social questions that found expression elsewhere in the Fair...