Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June, 1961 the Monroe NAACP, of which Williams was vice-resident, decided to picket the town's only public swimming pool. Previously, they had requested that it be desegregated, or at least opened to their children once a week. The town's officials refused: even if the Negro children were allowed to use the pool alone, it would cost too much money to refill it so that the white children could go swimming again...
...time of the picketing Williams had already established the principle of violence for self-defense. "The Negro in the South cannot expect justice in the courts," he had said in a public statement after a white man had been acquitted of the charge of raping a Monroe Negro woman despite the testimony of first-hand witnesses. "He must convict his attackers on the spot. He must meet violence with violence, lynching with lynching." Monroe Negroes were prepared to shoot it out an the picket line, if the town's white people attacked them...
Little David. The Reporter's survival is a measure of the bitterness of Port land's strike, which began with a stereotypers' protest over the introduction of automatic plate-casting machinery, and was soon punctuated by picket-line brawls and the dynamiting of newspaper delivery vans. Every other strike paper that has been started in the U.S. in the last 30 years-nearly a score in all-has done a quick fadeout as soon as the regulars returned to the newsstands. In Portland the regulars never really left; for six months they published a joint, typo-marred...
...party over to the rash and mercurial Bevan after Labor's defeat in the 1951 election, Attlee held on to the leadership and watched the developing struggle between ex-Coal Miner Nye and the middleclass, intellectual Gaitskell, who had never lived in a slum or walked in a picket line. With all the passion and eloquence of his proletarian youth, Bevan raged that Gaitskell was a "desiccated calculating machine." No phrasemaker, Gaitskell did not engage Nye in verbal combat, instead coolly and shrewdly lined up the trade union rank and file behind him. When Attlee finally resigned after...
...purporting to be knowledgeable, Fail-Safe thus plays on the deepest fears of humanity in the age of the atom; it is deliberately calculated to send distraught mothers to the picket lines with their Ban-the-Bomb signs. There is only one trouble: Fail-Safe is filled with falsities and distortions, and as such is not only a poor book but a cruel one. Among the major conflicts of fact and fiction...