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17th May
2013
“You can’t parade. Our orders are to prevent it.” In a moment there was a seething, screaming mass around the policemen. Staves and sticks began to fly.
–San Diego Sun, May 31, 1933
The story of a student demonstration that turned into a riot: The Young Communists.