The cases of 159 persons arrested in racial demonstrations last summer were disposed of yesterday before Judge Gordon B. Nash in Jury court.
Four persons were found guilty and fined $25 each. Twenty-two persons were found guilty but their fines were suspended. The remaining 133 defendants were discharged.
The 159 were arrested during demonstrations at four locations during which they protested alleged segregation in the city’s public schools.
The four found guilty and fined were William Devine, 32, … John Harkins, 27, … John Anderson, 18, … and Bernard Sanders, 21
Miss Willie Whiting, assistant state’s attorney, told the court that the four were in positions of leadership and engineered the demonstrations.
I suspect that many of them were just trying to buy influence in what they saw as an inevitable Clinton administration. I doubt that many thought of Sanders as a viable candidate at the time.
And Sanders wasn’t just getting arrested, either. According to this contemporary newspaper article, the state of Illinois identified Sanders as the leader of that demonstration. None of the other three leaders of the group were arrested on that day.
Sanders was in CORE from what I remember, who sent integrated groups south to ride the bus system in the 1940s. Bayard Rustin was a CORE member early on.
“And I believe,” he said, launching into his central applause line, “that the future of the Democratic Party and the United States of America will be best served with the experiences and know how of Hillary Clinton as our 45th president.”
But there wasn’t any applause.
“She’ll change immigration. She’ll change the economy. She’ll change todo!” said Dora Gonzalez, 54, a casino porter at the Bellagio, using the Spanish word for everything
“And she’s a mujer!” added her friend Elba Pinera, 51, and originally from Honduras, using the Spanish word for woman.
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Less than an hour before the caucuses began, Mrs. Clinton was shaking hands in the employee cafeteria at Harrah’s casino. “I need your help this morning, in the showroom at 11 a.m.,” she told the predominantly Spanish-speaking workers.
Not sure yet what to make of Nevada. I know she didn’t win by as big a margin as expected, but I wish Bernie and his people had narrowed the margin of loss even more (if not of course pulled ahead and won). More momentum will get more attention, so even more momentum, etc. I just can’t tell if Bernie is gaining ground fast enough.
I’m choosing to see the fact that Clinton scraped a win by ~5% in a state she was supposed to coast to victory in as a good result for Sanders. He’s going to keep on closing in.
Do all the Democratic caucuses/primaries award delegates proportionally? She’s in for a long hard slog at this rate.
If nothing else, she’s going to have an awful lot of Sanders voters she needs to keep sweet in the general.
If nothing else, she’s going to have an awful lot of Sanders voters she needs to keep sweet in the general.
Hahaha. Nope. Not happening with this Sanders voter. I’ll vote for myself first. I’d vote Bloomberg sooner. I wouldn’t vote for Gore, and the principal stands.
For some, the perception may be that “free markets” and “opportunity” (i.e. Clinton’s corporate brand) have done more for POC in the past 45 years than the anti-busing, white-flighting, AM radio loving unions.
Crazy? Yes. True? No. Sentencing discrimination, police violence, racial inequality measured by household income, educational attainment, preterm births, life expectancies, home equity, etc. It’s not true, it’s crazy.
But the GOP has divided dems with race-baiting for a long time. Sanders’s position “against free trade” is spun to make him seem less progressive than corporatists who want immigration statutes with objectionable guest worker programs.
