Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three reasons give weight to the belief that the Committee is merely an angry and jealous minority. First a Senior Class convention, especially if held in the New Lecture Hall on a warm day in April, can easily kindle a stingaree of a riot. More important is the fact that a Convention will undoubtedly lead to every conceivable kind of politics, vote-staggering, filibustering, and what not. Second, the Committee's idea of protesting an election in which the winners win by a slight margin is an example of sorehead thinking. Any man who permits his name to appear...
...with a broader appeal. This was the first international show of Surrealism (superrealism) ever held in the city where that movement was born.* Critics who have been forgetting about this weird school's pristine vigors were reminded of them forcibly when the opening night turned into a near riot, with 2,000 chittering Frenchmen milling around the gates and a troop of police in the courtyard...
...Post-Dispatch in 1914 he tore open the rank official corruption in East St. Louis while gamblers and police snarled telephone warnings to his wife on Saturday nights: "Look for that damned husband of yours in Cahokia Creek tomorrow morning!" On July 2, 1917 the famous race riot broke out, 34 Negroes and eight white men were slaughtered-18 of them before 23-year-old Paul Anderson's eyes. He took a hotel room in East St. Louis, swashed the blood off his shoes, ferreted out a stack of evidence which helped send 20 roughnecks to prison...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People wanted an investigator who looked white enough to circulate among crowds at lynchings, and young White, recently graduated from the Negro Atlanta University, was well qualified for the job. Founded nine years before as the result of a disastrous race riot in Abraham Lincoln's home town of Springfield, 111. the N. A. A. C. P. was then a smallish but idealistic organization with a masthead of big names, among them liberal Editor Oswald Garrison Villard and famed Boston Lawyer Moorfield Storey...
...then Federal anti-lynching laws. Palefaced Negro White did his job well. He talked to members of mobs that executed some 40 lynchings. Occasionally he had to evade such triumphant questions as "Well, how would you like to have your daughter marry a nigger?" Once, while investigating a race riot, in Arkansas, he narrowly escaped a mob who had heard he was a Negro investigator, breathlessly boarded a train only to have the conductor say: "You're leaving too soon?they're locking for a yellow nigger." He helped the N. A. A. C. P. publish the first case history...