Word: riotousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black militants used his murder to cry, "The civil rights movement is dead!" But they had said it long before his assassination. King was dangerously close to slipping from prophet to patsy. When his previous week's march in Memphis degenerated into riotous looting, a black gang leader who organized the violence chortled: "We been making plans to tear this town up for a long time. We knew he'd turn out a crowd." For years, behind his back, King's Negro denigrators had called him "de Lawd." Lately he had heard himself publicly called an Uncle...
...classes. At the same time, class attendance at the University of Madrid dropped sharply during a ten-day strike, and 1,000 students conducted a protest march. In Italy, although the Catholic University of Milan was reopened after student protests had closed it for a week, absenteeism persisted; meanwhile, riotous students at the University of Naples barricaded Rector Giuseppe Tesauro in his own office until club-swinging police broke through the blockade...
...effacing, Civil Rights Crusader John M. Doar likes to be where the action is. During seven years in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, the past two of them as its chief, the lanky, intense attorney has had action aplenty. He has faced down mobs of angry, riotous Negroes as calmly as he has forced rough-knuckled Southern sheriffs to obey the nation's laws against discrimination. Almost singlehanded, Doar pried open the South's voting booths for the Negro by personally prosecuting more than 30 voting-rights cases in federal court, since 1960 has participated...
...YORK, Nov. 14--A riotous mob screaming "Peace" battled police for control of Sixth Avenue tonight, as a violent anti-war demonstration against Secretary of State Dean Rusk spread half a mile along the busy midtown thorough-fare...
Elsewhere, however, TV coverage was just as riotous as the ghettos. Anyone who stood on a street corner of Newark and screamed loudly enough was sure to get on the air. "Television seems to have the knack of picking people off the street who were the most volatile and leading them into making the most violent kind of statements," complains Newark Police Director Dominick A. Spina. The stations made no attempt to sort out the various agitators they put on-camera or assess their importance. "They picked on every black face who proclaimed himself a leader," says Donald Malafronte, administrative...