Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political organizing to procuring guns. Speaking from a flatbed truck at the ceremony, Actor Marlon Brando, a Panther supporter, vowed to "do as much as I can to inform white people that time is running out." Specifically, Oakland's volatile Negro youths are shortening their tempers. On a wall of the house where Bobby Hutton died, one youngster had scrawled: "Is this justis...
Some of the deaths were caused by the natural hazards of insurrection. Negro Construction Worker Harold Bentley, 34, was walking close to a smoldering Washington building when a wall collapsed on him. Lois T. Majette, 20, was killed when the car in which she was riding collided with a police cruiser on the way to Baltimore's riot scene. In all, despite disorders in 168 communities, only six lives were taken by rioters' anger...
...cars for secretaries who worked late, and tried-unsuccessfully-to limit overtime pay for office workers. He also attempted to devise a telephone monitoring system so that the names of all callers would be noted. Once, following up a chance remark of the President's, he ordered a wall built between the Executive Office Building and the White House to block the vision of nosy reporters. That project was canceled, but Watson did succeed in barring reporters from the low-cost Executive Office Building cafeteria and in restricting their access to E.O.B. officials...
...tendencies. The students also broke store windows, erected barricades across streets and fought bitter pitched battles with police. The violence was worst of all in West Berlin, where a mob of 3,000 young revolutionaries broke almost every lower-floor window in Springer's shiny skyscraper near The Wall and set fire to some 20 delivery trucks. Then, crying "Berlin equals Memphis!", the students marched on West Berlin's city hall, setting fire to a police motorcycle along the way. All told, 150 persons so far were injured in the riots throughout Germany, several hundred jailed...
...Wall also argued that if a legislature can prohibit an act, it can declare counselling the commission of the act illegal as well. "Symbolic speech it may have been," he said, "but it was also clear incitement not to cooperate with the Selective Service System...