Word: riot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Spring's incident also provoked Faculty response. On Feb. 7, Siegfried M. Bruening, visiting lecturer in Transportation, called off his plans to give a course in urban riot control after 85 black students staged a protest...
...black workers in the construction unions. The locals, however, "protected" union membership with a rigorous seven-year apprenticeship program. The apprenticeship program, blacks charged, discriminated against them and would certainly have delayed their entry into the unions. In Pittsburgh, these charges increased racial tensions and led to a workers' riot. In Boston, Dunlop introduced the concept of "trainee status" as a second route for blacks into the unions. The trainee program provided a form of special tutoring to prepare blacks for the last stages of apprenticeship. Some blacks called the trainee status a trap and said that no one would...
Yippie Abbie Hoffman told a Harvard audience last night that his trial for conspiracy to incite riot "is sort of the way fascism is going to come-or is already here...
Judge Hoffman is conducting the trial of "The Chicago Eight" -Abbie Hoffman and seven others, including Mobilization director David Dellinger and Black Panther Party leader Bobby Seale-who are accused of conspiring to cross state lines to incite a riot in Chicago last summer...
...little jurist often seems determined to prove them right. Before the jury, he has praised U.S. Attorney Thomas Foran as one of the finest prosecutors in the country. On the other hand, he badgers and belittles lawyers for the eight men who are charged with conspiracy to foment a riot at last year's Democratic Convention in Chicago...