Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...USES line. Three weeks ago, she presided over the founding of an exclusively-Spanish-speaking Mothers for Adequate Welfare (MAWS) chapter, which was formed because of the language difficulties encountered in the regular South End group. MAWS, whose Roxbury division helped spark the riots there last summer with a sit-in at Grove Hall, Roxbury's welfare office, is dedicated to keeping at least one segment of the poor strong and united. MAWS pressures welfare agencies to deal fairly with women whose husbands have deserted them...
Last June, Roxbury had a riot. A group callel Mothers for Adequate Welfare (MAWS) staged a sit-in in Grove Hall, the Roxbury welfare center. The women locked themselves and the welfare board into the building. Then someone called the police, who waded into the crowds, swinging their nightsticks and touching off a bloody melee, which soon spread throughout the area...
...after the MAWS sit-in, young Negroes met in St. Hughes Church to form nightly patrol groups so that the police would not have to come into the neighborhood. With white armbands and orange vests, they walked the streets from nine at night until three in the morning...
...Psychedelic Supermarket, a damp basement garage just off Kenmore Square. No more than a dozen people sit at tables near the stage -- mostly teeny bopper couples with happy-colored beads and sad faces. Two workmen in cover-alls are folding up unused tables and chairs and dragging them past the three...
...aftermath of the sit-in means anything, more than a few Faculty and students will spend at least a little time in the next few months thinking about the more serious issue raised in the crammed Mallinckrodt hallway. The Harvard community, in overwhelming opposition to President Johnson's policy in Vietnam, must evaluate in practical and philosophical terms the propriety of its financial and personal involvement with the government and its private contractors...