Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About 35 clergymen began a vigil in front of the Capitol at 10 p.m. Tuesday to protest the beatings of that day. They asked if they could give a prayer on the Capitol steps, but a tight ring of state troopers prevented any movement toward the steps...
...hundred students from the Greater Boston area are continuing a 48 hour vigil begun Tuesday night outside Boston's Federal Building. The group, divided into four shifts, has been organized by SNCC and includes students from Harvard, Tufts, B.U., and Brandeis...
According to Dorothy B. Datz 2L, spokesman for the group, the vigil is intended to coincide with the SNCC protest march taking place in Washington. "Johnson is the only one who can help right now," she said, "All he has to do is snap his fingers...
...other poems, "The Body Vigil" and "Im Herbst," although both are rather weak in organization from stanza to stanza, show that Kershner has developed a poetic vocabulary. He speaks again and again of the seasons, of ice, of wind, of worms, of fire, and these images come to define, not merely describe, feelings...
...students in the vigil formed a line which extended completely around the Federal Building. Most of these marchers were expected to go home in a few hours, but many will return for another shift today or tomorrow...