Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard-cash collections to help rebuild the bombed Baptist church. The reaction demonstrated what is best about religion's responsibilities toward mending the nation's racial division: white ministers and priests are everywhere waking up to the need to help Negroes through secular action -fund drives, picket lines, finding jobs, breaking down housing segregation. But at the same time, the hatred that brought on the bombing showed what clergymen confess to be the worst in their role: their inability to stand in pulpits and to preach Acts 17:26 (God "hath made of one blood...
...against the excesses of expectation on both sides, the day began in anticlimax. Overnight, special trains and buses began moving into Washington from all parts of the U.S. Some of the early arrivals went off to picket Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department. But most of those getting off the trains in Washington's Union Station seemed weary, bewildered and subdued...
...Wilkins himself suffered his first (and one of his few) arrests as a picket in Washington in 1934 after Franklin
...schools there since 1959. White officials requested extra jail space in eight surrounding counties - enough, said one Negro leader, "to house every citizen of Prince Edward County, Negro and white, including horses, cattle and dogs." The poignant point of the strug gle was summed up in one teen-age picket's placard. It read: DEMOCRASY. "These niggers can't even spell," scoffed a white cop. "What do you expect?" snapped a Negro minister. "They haven't been in school for four years...
Having been turned down again by the Summer School in its fight for official recognition and the privilege to use Harvard rooms, the Summer Socialist Club has planned a protest picket for Wednesday...