Between October 8th and 11th, 1969 – The Days of Rage riots occured in Chicago when 287 members of the militant group, the Weathermen, converged on the city to confront the police in the streets. WUO members from throughout the country engaged in hit and run tactics with the police for several days, causing a large amount of property damage. One person was killed and many demonstrators were arrested. Some of the WUO members became fugitives and went underground when they failed to appear for trial in connection with their arrests during the riots, some only resurfaced decades later. 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... Weather Underground redirects here. ... Weather Underground redirects here. ...
But up until three days ago when the momentum was there, the biggest momentum ever for launching a democratic movement, for everybody's surprise, everybody never predicted before that on Thursday morning the riot broke out, which killed the momentum of democratization.
You have to remember, three days ago, he was very defensive, and everybody thought that he was going to go in a matter of days.
Now, I agree with Sylvia that the movement up until three days ago were also-it were involving the masses, the workers, the small people, but the movement was led by the middle class sons and daughters.
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