Word: riot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said they would join a riot when they returned to the U.S. However, a nearly equal number, 40%, said they would...
...puppy "soul man." Base club operators who accept country and western but not soul music from their entertainers have paid a toll. Clubs were wrecked in Chu Lai, Qui Nhon and a dozen other places in the past twelve months. Two white sailors were recently tried for inciting a riot at the Tan My Club...
...total 30,000 are blacks, 4,000 Spanish Americans, 13,500 whites from the South, and the rest local whites. Tension in Pontiac, and in its schools, has been consistently high ever since two men were killed and fire bombs thrown in a spillover of the 1967 riot in nearby Detroit. Last year, at the urging of concerned blacks and whites, the city's school board agreed to appropriate $25,000 for the first system-wide school "sensitivity" training program in the nation. The purpose: to give whites and minority groups in the schools a better understanding of each...
...that, the CRIMSON "viewed with disfavor" a whole series of actions, including College eating facilities, the inefficiency of the Harvard Athletic Association, bureaucratic red-tape, the handling of the athletic rupture with Princeton in 1926, a rise in tuition, and the brutality of Cambridge police in quelling a student riot...
...group organized a series of summer leisure programs in the ghetto. Says Bedgood: "Everyone was real happy. Like man, they brought jazz groups in, they brought the symphony in, we had plays, we had rock groups. Practically every night they had something going. There was just no time to riot." Leon Atchison, assistant to Detroit's able black Representative John Conyers Jr., calls these bootstrap efforts "sort of a Reconstruction revisited." He adds: "After the violence of 1967, it became apparent to blacks that war and confrontation in the streets was not the answer...