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Segregation Boycott Ties Boston Schools to Citizenship Movement
In Boston, a boycott led by Negro leaders inclines 5,000 of 14,000 Negro students to skip public schools. The action cites de facto segregation in public schools, with leaders urging admission of segregation concerns and urging parents to enroll children in neighborhood centers for citizenship and freedom movement instruction. Lecturers include Bishop Stokes, Harvard’s Pettigrew, and Bill Russell. The School Committee seeks state guidance on compulsory education laws.
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Boston
Movement For Abolition
Srey
Edmund L. McNamara
Louise Day Hicks
NAACP
Citizens For Human Rights
Edward W.W. Brooke
Brooke
James Breeden
Breeden
Citizenship
The
Freedom Movement
Te Rt
Anson Phelps Stokes
Episcopal
Massachusetts
Thomas Pettigrew
Harvard University
Bill Russell
Boston Cetics