Word: anacostia
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This weekend in Washington several hundred American citizens were beaten, tear-gassed, and incarcerated by officials and soldiers whose salaries they help pay. It was the bloodiest clash in the nation's capital since General MacArthur's troops routed the Bonus Army at Anacostia Flats...
This summer Washington made news -- perhaps -- when a crowd of young people threw sticks and rocks at a police station in the Anacostia section of Washington, while one or two boys with a keen sense of the dramatic shouted, "Let's go get the cocktails!" Local newspapers immediately christened the outburst a "riot," and the police did their best to make it one by sending for a pack of dogs with their handlers, white men from Brandywine, Maryland, on the ends of their leashes...
Nothing really came of this riotlet except the realization in some quarters -- maybe for the first time -- that a real riot in Washington is not beyond the realm of possibility. But there followed controversy upon controversy about whether people on the UPO payroll had provoked the Anacostia "riot...
...papers, MacArthur's 220,000-word manuscript was completed in six months. It takes the full measure of his illustrious career-World War I, his service in the Philippines, the 1932 Bonus March on Washington, which MacArthur, then Army Chief of Staff, stemmed at "the Battle of Anacostia Flats," the heroic triumphs of World War II, and his final recall by President Truman from command in Korea in 1951. "I felt that a mass of misinformation and lack of information required some further exposition of the facts," said the general...
...freshman, Lawrence Linson, 15, was beaten by ten Negroes, who knocked out three of his teeth and broke his jaw in two places. One 14-year-old boy was chased a quarter of a mile by a group of Negroes until, in desperation, he plunged fully clothed into the Anacostia River...