Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They also considered organizing sympathy protests at other colleges in Boston or bringing students from other campuses to picket at Brandels...
Challenger Clay led them all a merry chase. He met Liston's plane at the airport, spouted insults at Sonny and his wife. He threatened to picket Liston's training camp. He offered to fight Sonny on the street, for free. "I cannot be beaten," he insisted. "It's prophesied for me to be successful." But at his public training sessions, Clay looked impressively listless. The experts hooted. And the prefight weigh-in did nothing to change their minds...
Such incidents were bad enough, but perhaps even worse was a 48-hour disruption of construction at the Cape Kennedy (nee Canaveral) space complex, where 3,500 workers refused to cross picket lines set up by the strikers. The railroad has a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to haul heavy building materials to the cape. As a result of the picketing, 30 projects worth $200 million were closed down, including construction of the site where the Saturn rocket moon shot will be assembled...
...Pickets marched at both locations, carrying signs reading "Cars or People," "Save the Charles for Our Children," and "Don't Throw Our $6 Million Down the Thruway." One of the demonstrators was Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler, Cambridge City Councillor, who carried a tiny piece of cardboard that read, "How Can I Cross an Expressway to Play." Another picket, a baritone in a brown duffel coat, sang: "I think that I shall never see/A highway lovely as a tree...
...stopped at the white cells. "This trash keeps it up, you go ahead and do what you got to do," one said meaningfully to my cellmates. On the Negro side, I could hear the clatter of a drawn gun on bars like a stick dragged along a picket fence. "They'll be no damn singing in this jail!" came the shout. We got handcuffs to lock ever' one a you to the bars. Y'all shut up an' stay shut up--raisin' san' when we got to work...