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This conclusion is the result of some forty-odd year of being black in a white society: but its immediate cause is the killing of an unarmed black teenager by an Irish-American policeman. The policeman, cited on two separate occasions for bravery, says the youth attacked him with a penknife. He pumped five bullets into the teenager's chest. No knife is ever found. Browning (and black America) recognizes the killing for what it is: cold-blooded murder. His faith in the country completely shattered, he arranges through the Mafia a contract for the policeman's death...
...kill an eve for an eye thus letting white America know that it can no longer wantonly murder blacks without retribution. He hopes that it will also head off massive unorganized ghetto revolts in which only blacks suffer. But Browning's hopes crumple like a dynamited bridge, as the policeman's death touches off an uncontrollable swirl of events...
...York political terms, the construction worker, the policeman, the telephone repairman already buy Mario Procaccino's brand of politics. They leave the Democratic Party only when it swings too far to the liberal side, and Procaccino has not done that. He also seeks to include behind his average-man barricade another, more elusive segment of the population?typified by the schoolteacher, the junior accountant, the shopkeeper, the middle-income lawyer or engineer who chooses to work for the government...
...policeman acting on administration orders told students assembled for the meeting in the B. U. Auditorium that they could not stay in the building. The group agreed to leave but went to the nearby George Sherman University Union, where they met undisturbed...
...coasts.) As tentatively planned, there will be eight "centers" where people will stay, perhaps church basements or student cooperatives around the University of Chicago area. People from each center will act together and form into cadres of 40 each that will fight police together-that is, if a policeman charges the demonstrators, rather than run these people will band together and attack...