Word: riot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent rioting in Detroit between Negroes, who were peacefully moving into their new government homes, and their white attackers is a shameful example of how many Americans, on the one hand paying lip service to the anti-fascist cause are, on the other, committing crimes worthy only of a sadistic Japanese soldier. Negro defense workers and their families, after several postponements and one refusal, were finally given permission to move into a government housing project built originally for them. On the day of the moving, the Negroes planned to celebrate. But there was no celebration. It was stolen from them...
...themselves as members of a superior race. They think their "stock" is too good to live near darker-skinned citizens. And to back up their feelings of racial superiority they are supported by the arm of the law. It was the whites who broke the peace and began the riot, but it was the Negroes who paid for it in blood and humiliation. Of the 38 persons critically injured, 33 were Negroes. Of the 104 persons locked in jail, 101 were Negroes. At home, the arm of the law saw to it that the theory of race superiority was kept...
...Germans wanted the use of an insane asylum in a nearby village and decided to eliminate the 529 inmates. "First they stuffed the chimneys and tried to suffocate the patients. This started a riot, with the patients breaking glass, etc. Half of them escaped, and it is believed that most of them perished in the snow; 276 were taken to a neighboring park and shot...
...picture-taking led him into really serious trouble in Ecuador when he asked to take pictures of the Nazi Consul in the capitol. He was knocked down and severely beaten in a street riot, but was saved by a group of students who wanted their pictures taken...
...City course is under the direction of Sergeant Cooper of the Cambridge police, and the University's is guided by Mason Hammond '25, associate professor of Greek and Latin, and History Members of both courses attend the lectures on such subjects as police law and riot control by Sergeant Cooper in Saunders, and then change over to Memorial Hall for the drill by members...