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...himself was conducting interviews. Having come down a bit, he explained to us that he was a staff reporter for the Cambridge Chronicle! Remarkable, we thought at the time. Joe Perkins had read the situation right and acted right within seconds--and thereby possibly avoided a dreaded Wrestling Fan Riot...
...Lookin' Over From Your Side," for example, a Harlem-dweller suggests that if whites lived in a rat-infested slum, they too might be moved to riot. "Time Brings About Change" and "They Keep Comin'," on the other hand, are both paens to black progress, one bitter and funny, the other proudly insistent. In the former, one soloist pokes fun at the discomfort busing is causing whites. "Once we walked nine miles to school, while they took the bus," he sings. "Now they want to talk to school, and leave the driving...
...students-30% of the roughly 115,000 students-from throughout the county to inner-city all-black schools. During that period, civil rights demonstrations by black groups prompted a violent reaction from the conservative working-class whites. In 1960 a Ku Klux Klan "ax-handle Saturday" resulted in a riot in which blacks who were peacefully picketing for integrated restaurants were severely beaten...
Polaski expressed concern yesterday that there might be more trouble as an increased numbers of picketers and police face each other this morning. She also indicated that 15-20 riot policemen had been put on alert at the Fresh Pond police station, and said that they were "going through maneuvers...
Britain now has some 1.8 million nonwhites-a heterogeneous collection of West Indians, Indo-Pakistanis and Africans-crowded into urban ghettos and suffering an unemployment rate three times the white rate. The morning after the Notting Hill riot, most observers agreed that it was not so much a battle between blacks and whites as between tough black youths and white police. But the Times added: "It is a warning of further troubles to come if the right lessons are not drawn...