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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1972
Page
4
SACRAMENTO UPI The chief sponsor said about 150000 signatures for the antibusing measure have been filed with county clerks. To qualify for the November ballot, 325404 voter signatures are needed by June 19. The measure would repeal a new state law cited to force busing of students across neighborhoods.
Fifteen walking mothers with sores, after protests from Michigan and Virginia, delivered petitions with hundreds of thousands of signatures to Congress on the Capitol steps. About 2,000 visitors from a dozen states arrived by bus and car to join the antibusing rally and push for a constitutional amendment to bar court ordered desegregation. Irene McCabe led a 620 mile walk from Pontiac, Mich, and described pain from the journey as she urged stronger White House support.
More than 52 thousand of Memphis public school students nationwide boycott as U S District Judge McRae ordered busing for about thirteen thousand students next September. Picketers at many schools protest the court order while some sites report varied attendance. Local organizers claim broad support across regions as the movement unfolds.
Acting Attorney General Richard Klein listed a motion filed in the 10th Circuit seeking permission for the U.S. to file a friend of the court brief in the Oklahoma City desegregation case. The brief urges remand to District Court to decide if near all black schools stem from official segregation or shifting housing patterns.
The Black Panther Party endorsed Shirley Chisholm for president, urging every black, poor, and progressive person to help elect her. Huey P. Newton announced in the party paper and Bobby Seale reiterated at a news conference. Chisholm said the Panthers, as fellow Americans, sought to support a candidate who could fulfill oppressed groups’ hopes and aspirations.
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