Charges Dropped in ‘Policeman’s Field Day’

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Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966

On September 16 charges of Inciting to Riot against Moses Wedlow and James Roberts were dismissed in Recorder’s Court by visiting Judge John Seiler. The charges grew out of the August 9-12 “Policeman’s Field Days” on Kercheval on Detroit’s East …

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Campaign ’66

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Fifth Estate # 16, October 16-31, 1966

“The free election of masters eliminates neither the masters nor the slaves.” —Herbert Marcuse American politics, as has been noted here before, is the politics of non-alternatives and pseudo-choices. If we needed any evidence, the present election provides it. Search …

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“Bonnie & Clyde” Defended

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Fifth Estate # 41, November 1-15, 1967

As a charter member of the “Bonnie and Clyde” cult, Thomas Haroldson’s hostile review of the movie in the last issue of the FIFTH ESTATE [“Bonnie & Clyde Shot Down,” FE #40, October 15-31, 1967] was slightly disconcerting. Enough so …

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The “Bad” Americans

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Fifth Estate # 41, November 1-15, 1967

The events of the week of anti-war resistance which began October 16, and which have continued to this writing—including the assault on the war profiteers at the Rackham Building on Wayne State’s campus on October 24 and 25—are of profound …

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Expose ’67

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Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967

The Fifth Estate has obtained a copy of a letter, one paragraph of which states: “As far as I am concerned, the local police in every community must be prepared to draw fast and not let the bleeding hearts again …

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Old Perspectives on Race at WSU

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Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967

On October 19 to 21, Wayne State University will sponsor a conference titled “New Perspectives on Race and the City.” Featured speakers include G. Mennen Williams, Jerome P. Cavanagh, Hubert Locke, Roger Wilkins of the U.S. Justice Department, Community Relations …

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Vietnam Summer

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Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967

There is, even though you may not have noticed it lately, still a war going on in Vietnam.

Another cosmic hoax Perpetrated upon us by Colonialism

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Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022

a review of The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills. Cornell University Press 1993

GM-South Africa

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Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967

Arthur P. Hughes is a short, timid appearing young man of 23. He wears thick glasses and a large turquoise ring.

Support Grows for City District System

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Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967

The Rev. Charles Williams is a conservative, Negro, Republican Baptist. Robert Tindal is the executive director of the tradition-bound Civil Rights Organization to The Establishment—the NAACP. The Rev. Albert Cleage is a militant black power advocate and chairman of the …

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