Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro doesn't want to be tolerated! He wants to be accepted-loved and enjoyed for his own personal worth. If the Mrs. Brookes and May Britts outnumbered the Stokely Carmichaels and Rap Browns of the U.S., we could leave the rioting to those nice, white little college boys and girls who have enough money to visit Florida every year...
...came, it was bitter. Ailing and verging on senility at 73, Gustav turned all over to his son, then 37, in 1943-shortly after Allied bombers began the raids that eventually turned a third of Krupp's Essen plants to rubble. After the Allied victory Alfried took the rap for Gustav, by then mentally incompetent, and was sentenced at Niirnberg to twelve years for using slave labor and "plundering occupied territory." Later, the U.S. acknowledged the injustice of the Niirnberg sentence, released Krupp and allowed him to take control of his firm once again...
...Cambridge, Md., got a sample of those war tactics last week when H. "Rap" Brown (ne Hubert Geroid Brown), 23, Carmichael's successor as head of the inappropriately named Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, turned up at a Negro rally. When Carmichael introduced Brown to reporters in Atlanta last May as the new S.N.C.C. chairman, he chuckled: "You'll be happy to have me back when you hear from...
...Rap, who earned his nickname because, so the story goes, his oratory inspired listeners to shout "Rap it to 'em, baby!" was just getting warmed up. "Detroit exploded, Newark exploded, Harlem exploded!" he cried. "It is time for Cambridge to explode, baby." Continued Brown: "Black folks built America. If America don't come around, we're going to burn America down, brother. We're going to burn it if we don't get our share...
Like Cherry Pie. The next day Brown was arrested in Alexandria, Va., on a fugitive warrant, charged by Maryland with inciting to riot and arson. That rap could get Rap up to 20 years in jail. Released on $10,000 bond, Brown compulsively continued to shoot off his mouth. Damning Lyndon Johnson for sending "honky*cracker federal troops into Negro communities to kill black people," Brown called the President "a wild mad dog, an outlaw from Texas." He told Washington audiences: "Violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie. If you give me a gun and tell...