Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...played a sympathetic but generally nonactivist part, threw itself wholeheartedly, and even physically, into the struggle. Priests and ministers, rabbis and rectors were on the march. The U.S.'s foremost Presbyterian official was jailed-along with other church leaders of different denominations. Nuns appeared on civil rights picket lines. Several thousand miles from the U.S., in Vatican City, Pope Paul VI expressed his keen interest and concern for the civil rights struggle in America. He told visiting President John Kennedy: "We are ever mindful in our prayers of the efforts to ensure to all your citizens the equal benefits...
...enable him to accept his legal rights. He wants a massive, domestic Marshall Plan, with emphasis on slum clearance and job training. Still, Young refuses to let the Urban League name be used in the activist demonstrations going on across the nation. Says he: "You can holler, protest, march, picket, demonstrate; but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be the strategists, the researchers and the professionals to carry out a program. That's our role...
...already have full equality before the law-yet they are angrily restive about the injustices that have been inflicted upon them. And in their struggle against unofficial segregation, the Negroes have come to rely, with ever-increasing intensity and tempo, on direct action-boycotts, marches, sit-ins, pray-ins, picket lines...
...Binghamton, people always thought Moore was peculiar. He was a pacifist and an atheist, who even objected to the words "In God We Trust" on U.S. coins. Binghamton was accustomed to his one-man picket parades. Whether urging fluoridation of the local water supply or protesting against the downtown display of an Atlas missile or prayers in public schools, Moore would hang a sign around his neck and start marching...
...just a hopeless pursuit of the impossible? In Binghamton, Mayor John J. Burns did not think so: "This taught all of us a lesson. He was scorned here. I think now we're all sorry he was. Maybe the next time someone wants to picket the courthouse, we will tolerate brave people...