Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students from predominantly black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat down at a Greensboro lunch counter. Peaceful but determined, the Negroes vowed not to move until they were served - and thereby set the pattern of nonviolent sit-ins that dominated black protest for years. Last week A. & T. students in the tobacco and textile town traded shots with police and National Guards men for three days. The contrast capsuled the revolution in the mode of protest in the U.S. that has taken place...
...trouble started when students in the town's all-Negro Dudley High School went on a rock-throwing spree to protest a school election from which a militant candidate had been barred...
...dawn assault, clearing the dormitories and rounding up more than 200 students. Neither the police nor the Guardsmen, one of whom was wounded in the action, made any further arrests. They did confiscate a number of weapons found in the dormitories. Among these tools of the new type of protest: semiautomatic rifles...
...Guardsmen and police from surrounding areas. Soon 2,260 troops, plus cops and sheriff's deputies, patrolled the town and campus. Berkeley began to look like an occupied city, with Army Jeeps and trucks clogging the streets, helicopters patrolling the skies and "Yanqui go home" scrawled on walls. Protest marches of up to 4,000, though illegal under the emergency edict, became a daily occurrence. Late last week, Guardsmen surrounded and arrested 482 marchers in the downtown area. They were held in $800 bail each, in an attempt to break the back of the movement. In ten days...
...protest, People's Park seemed largely forgotten. The National Guardsmen who had moved in to save it for the university soon occupied it as a bivouac area. It was still fenced off, and where swings and benches had been, there were Jeeps, trucks, pup tents and latrines...