Word: riot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This was not a race riot. There was no conflict between groups of our citizens. What happened was the thoughtless, criminal acts of hoodlums, reckless, irresponsible people. Shame has come to our city, and sorrow...
With this introduction, CBS began one of the most eloquent and outspoken programs in radio history (An Open Letter to the American People). With no bombast and with a great deal of level, direct statement, CBS told the story of Detroit's recent race riot (TIME, June 28) and told it with the special impact possible in radio. The fact that a major U.S. network had the courage and took the time to emphasize a crisis in race relations was big radio news...
...time to read the riot act to some . . . teachers. They are just as dangerous, just as guilty of treason as the man who blows up the White House. There is a rule of the Board of Education that a teacher . . . guilty of gross misconduct may be dropped.. . . But the teacher who teaches pacifism . ... is a thousand times more dangerous . . . than the teacher who gets drunk and lies in the gutter...
...work and drill pretty damn hard here at Camp Wheeler, preparing for the time in the near future when we are going across to fight the enemies of democracy. . . . Your article on Detroit's little race riot makes us begin to wonder whether we should be shipped to Africa or Detroit...
...would just as soon run my bayonet through the foremost young man in your race riot photo as I would through any other enemy of democracy. And I think there are plenty of other bayonets down here to back...