Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large private firms are worse; although most of the department stores now employ Negroes in "high visibility" positions (since Negroes make up so much of the buying market, this is not unsound policy), many industries still refuse to budge. Julius Hobson, the President of Washington CORE, explains that "we picket a company and they take their one Negro out of the stockroom and put him on display to show that they're integrated. Then the pickets leave and he goes back into the stockroom...
Flying on to Los Angeles, Rocky again had a disappointing reception. The marching band on hand at the airport didn't march. The drum majorettes seemed to have the dropsy. Picket signs advised, "This is Goldwater Country" and "Go Home Rocky." Gamely, Rocky repeated his attacks on the Kennedy Administration and was roundly applauded for his efforts. But so far as the G.O.P. was concerned, he admitted that for him "the title of underdog is the right...
...November 4 Governor Wallace will speak at Sanders Theatre, and CRCC will hold a protest rally. Students will follow their tastes and attend one or the other or neither. This is as it should be. Those whose sensibilities are offended by Wallace may question or avoid or picket his speech. But surely their subjective views should not prevent others from choosing to hear what the Governor...
...spokesman for CRCC, Helen S. Garvy '61, said yesterday that demonstrators will picket outside Sanders Theatre, where Wallace is speaking, and then march to the rally. She said the CRCC hopes its rally will outdraw Wallace's speech...
...middle of the picket line stands a blond, moppy haired Harvard preppy-identified to Wellesley girls by silverware in the jacket pocket and tie askew...