[Bullets dont stop March Against Fear. Strikers play fills Madison
Square Garden. Court rules for lunch-counter sit-in. Cesar Chavez gets
started. CIA lawbreaking whitewashed. Environmental racism costs Shell
Oil. Paul Robeson defies witch-hunters.]
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_ Bullets don't stop March Against Fear. Strikers' play fills Madison
Square Garden. Court rules for lunch-counter sit-in. Cesar Chavez gets
started. CIA lawbreaking whitewashed. Environmental racism costs Shell
Oil. Paul Robeson defies witch-hunters. _
Civil rights activist James Meredith wounded in a shotgun attack,
_JUNE 6, 1966._ Civil rights hero James Meredith is shot and wounded
on the second day of a planned 3-week-long voting rights
demonstration. Meredith had planned a 270-mile march from Memphis,
Tenn., to Jackson, Miss., in an effort to encourage Mississippians to
defy racist terror by registering to vote.
The vicious attack on Meredith galvanized the civil rights community,
with the result that hundreds of supporters of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference,
the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the Congress of Racial
Equality, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People and many others vowed to carry on with the demonstration while
Meredith recovered. The greatly enlarged demonstration was called the
March Against Fear.
The tremendous outpouring of support and publicity resulted in a
triumphant 3-week-long headline-grabbing event, during with more than
four thousand people in communities along the march route registered
to vote, many of them for the first time in their lives.
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_JUNE 7, 1913 (110 YEARS AGO)._ 25 thousand striking textile workers
in Paterson, N.J., call for public support of their 14-week-old strike
by renting Madison Square Garden for a standing-room-only re-enactment
of the reasons for and history of the strike.
With a cast consisting of hundreds of strikers, The Pageant of the
Paterson Strike was produced with the assistance of Big Bill Haywood,
John Reed, Walter Lippman, Max Eastman and Mabel Dodge, with scenery
painted by John Sloan.
The Pageant was a theatrical success, but the employers would not
budge. The strike was abandoned seven weeks later.
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_JUNE 8, 1953 (70 YEARS AGO)._ In a case concerning a lunch-counter
sit-in, the Supreme Court decides that a law prohibiting racial
discrimination by a restaurant or similar public accommodation is
constitutional and can be enforced, but the decision only applies to
states and cities with anti-discrimination laws.
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_JUNE 9, 1952._ Cesar Chavez, who is at the time a 25-year-old
agricultural worker and not an organizer, has his first meeting with
community organizer Fred Ross, who had knocked on Chavez' door while
canvasing in San Jose, Calif. As Chavez later recalled: "He started
talking—and changed my life," "Fred did such a good job of
explaining how poor people could build power that I could even taste
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_JUNE 10, 1975. _ The President's Commission on CIA Activities Within
the United States releases its 312-page final report after a 6-month
investigation. The report includes some previously undisclosed details
of some CIA domestic spying, but it is widely criticized as a
whitewash, in part because it never refers to domestic CIA activities
as "illegal", but describes them as having "exceeded statutory
authority." Years after its release, it was revealed that the report
had been heavily edited by Dick Cheney, who had no role in its
drafting. Among Cheney's many changes was an 86-page section on "CIA
Assassination Plots," which was entirely omitted.
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_JUNE 11, 2002. _ After a hard fought 13-year campaign against the
environmental racism of Shell Oil, the company agrees to pay every
resident of Diamond, Louisiana, the cost of relocating to get away
from Shell's dangerous and polluting refinery.
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_JUNE 12, 1956._ Paul Robeson appears before House Un-American
Activities Committee in response to a subpeona. He tells them "You are
the non-patriots and you are the un-Americans and you ought to be
ashamed of yourselves." The committee voted in favor of citing
Robeson for contempt of Congress but the matter was quietly dropped
before the whole House could vote on it. Listen to 11 minutes of
Robeson's stirring testimony that day at
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