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Word: picketer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signatures had been collected and presented to the Tufts Administration. This petition stated that I was being fired for unjust reasons and requested my reinstatement. I also told him about the environmental display (tree wrapping on campus) by Fine Arts students asking for my reinstatement, and of the picket lines set up that day in the administration building at Tufts. The reporter told me that these facts weren't very important since the story wouldn't appear the next day--it did. He also told me that he knew all the facts--he didn't. I refer anyone who wishes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "I MUST OBJECT" | 12/12/1972 | See Source »

...Angela was aware of and involved in the civil rights movement. "When I was 12," she says, "I helped organize interracial study groups...but they were busted up by the police." As a teen-ager she worked for SNCC in the voter registration campaigns and on the picket lines during the long struggle in Birmingham...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Angela and SCLC: 'We're black and we're proud and we're broke, but gutsy and we'll survive.' | 12/8/1972 | See Source »

Hobson, though, takes greater pride in his successful campaign to change downtown racial practices. "When I started out with picket lines in 1960," he told TIME Correspondent Paul Hathaway, "a black clerk was as rare as a white crow. Now they are all over the place." He pressured such giants as Safeway Stores and A&P into hiring blacks for the first time. When one leading auto dealer hired a black salesman, Hobson thanked the company by buying his first Ford there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: A Last Angry Man | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

...International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents cameramen, audio and lighting men and other technicians. But now the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists had ordered its members-who include newsmen and the casts of live programs such as soap operas-to honor the IBEW picket lines at CBS broadcast sites. Such stellar AFTRA members as Newsmen Roger Mudd, Dan Rather and Eric Sevareid had pledged "reluctant" compliance. Would lightning strike? Would a faceless CBS management man rocket to instant fame as substitute anchorman, as did the unsung Arnold Zenker, then manager of the CBS news programming, during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: CBS Cliffhanger | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

Whatever happens, Arnold Zenker will not be available as a substitute newsman. His stint on CBS during the 1967 strike propelled him into the performing ranks as host of two local talk shows in Boston; an AFTRA member himself now, Zenker would have to honor the IBEW picket line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: CBS Cliffhanger | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

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