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Since then, said Hare, "we have been subjected to something fantastic and terroristic. Many self-anointed saints took it upon themselves to come here to help us solve our problems. Many of the ministers of the Gospel who came here would do well to stack their picket signs and get back in the pulpit." Integration, he said, "will solve no social problems; it will probably create them. It is just one of those things we have got to live through. It may be pretty rough living." But rough as it had been, he sighed, Selma's whites had "shown...
Instead, the organizers concentrated on a primarily physical demonstration. Their idea was to have as many people as possible picket the White House and march to the Capitol, and thus to demonstrate to the President, Congress, and the American public the size of the anti-war sentiment in the nation...
Most of the marchers were college students from more than 75 campuses from to California. With them on the six-block-long picket line were civil rights workers, high school students from Mississippi, mothers wheeling baby carriages, and a group of 70 scientists from the Rockefeller Institute...
Saturday's demonstration began at when about 100 students arrived the White House to picket. By 11 the ranks had swelled to well over . The picket line two blocks St.--the length of the Treasury department building--around Pennsyl- House, then up 17th St. for two blocks vania Avenue in front of the White beside the Executive Office Building...
...only tense moment of Saturday's demonstrations came late in the morning when police suddenly refused to allow students with picket signs to cross East Executive Ave. which passes beside the White House. The demonstrators protested the order and started across the street, yelling for pickets to charge the police. As police began to push the students back to the curb, the order was rescinded