Word: picketings
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...members of the board of directors of the National Gay Task Force, representing a number of homosexual organizations throughout the country, met in New York City to plot a nationwide strategy. Activists in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, New Orleans, Houston and San Antonio were ready to picket Bryant if she turned...
...once shared with them wouldn't come true for him. "I came to grips with the fact that for me there was not going to be any wife and kids, and that were I ever to have what I'd thought I wanted--the 'house with the white picket fence'--the partner there would be a man rather than a woman," Alvin H. Baum Jr. '52 writes...
...hood of his pick-up and talking low: "Hoffa's a communist...Teamsters, they're all communists...AFL-CIO's all communist...what's gonna happen to the country when the unions get in?" Here is the leader of the striking miners, pleading with the men to continue picket duty six months into the strike despite court injunctions that could make them subject to jail sentences: "Hell, lawyers are made to get you out of trouble when you get in, not to get you out of trouble before you get in." And Norman Yar-brough, president of Eastover...
...outside, the unseen menace of Duke Power. As the leader of the strikers tells the company's president, a man who bears a striking resemblance to Hubert Humphrey (D-Monn.), "KWell I tell you one thing Mr. Horn--I'm gonna be right there on that goddam picket line looking at you.... just as long as it takes...
...with a Colt .32, and, still laughing, replaces it. You get the idea she'd use it. The power struggle between the two is glossed over, but Crusenberry becomes the leader of the women. When the men are hampered by injunction and fear, the Harlan women take over, walking picket duty, stopping scab cars--they are the backbone that holds up the flesh of the strike...