Word: weres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coop president Milton P. Brown 40 Lincoln Filene Professor of Retailing. points to the nearly successful "Coop Coup" as proof that the old by-laws were unworkable and unfair in practice. "We were concerned not only that a small minority could take control, but that it could also have no...
And, finally, what happened in Chicago was not a riot, in the sense that the destruction in Watts and Newark was called a "riot." What happened in Chicago was carefully planned. The demonstrators knew before each action that they were going to destroy property and hurt people.
If the violence of Chicago was an act of war then it has to be judged like a military encounter. If it is judged that way, the Weathermen lost. Three-quarters of them were taken prisoner and their casualties were easily double that of the other side.
But it was not quite an act of war, because the battles were "events," which were publicized long before they happened.
They were events for the media to cover. and the Weathermen realized they had to get big coverage to achieve their main self-proclaimed goal: to show Third World people (the non-whites in America and abroad) that white people were joining them in their fight against white imperialism. The...