Word: crowd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marshals trained by the New Mobilization Committee, the march's sponsor, tightly controlled the crowd. Among their slogans was "Do it in the road...
Among the Harvard personalities participating in the rally at the Washington Monument were George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, who spoke to the crowd, and buckskin-clad, former Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary. "Out of sight," Leary commented...
Shortly after the march had rounded the building and was back on Constitution Avenue, a demonstrator threw a red smoke bomb which exploded next to the building. Then, with thousands of demonstrators jammed in the street in front of the Justice Department, members of the crowd hurled rocks and bottles at the windows...
...line of Mobe marshals briefly ringed the base of the Justice Department building holding their fingers in the V-shape to try to stop the barrage. Police moved in from the east and fired two successive rounds of tear gas which drove about a quarter of the crowd back into the Mall to the south...
...some 15 minutes demonstrators and police confronted each other until the crowd began to throw rocks and sticks at police. Then the police began a massive tear gas attack on the crowd...