Word: boycotters
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Civil rights organizations are going ahead with their plans for a Boston school boycott on Feb. 26, despite Attorney General Brooke's recent assertion that keeping children out of school is illegal. The Mass Stay-Out for Freedom Committee is urging Negroes in Roxbury and Dorchester to send their children to special Freedom Schools on the day of the boycott...
...student groups at Harvard, Brandeis, M.I.T., Tufts, B.U., and Simmons will be formed to aid the stay-out. The Boston Action Group, the Northern Student Movement, and St. Ann's Church are sending college students from door to door in the Negro neighborhoods to win mass support for the boycott...
...boycott, over 75 Freedom Schools in churches and community centers will be opened to teach classes to those children who stay out of the public schools. In over 200 classes a formal curriculum of Negro history and civil rights will be taught. When the Freedom classes end, students, teachers and parents will probably march to a demonstration near the State House...
Last Thursday, the School Committee finally started to move. Eisenstadt and Lee for the first time joined Gartland in asking for communication with the boycott organizers. This change in attitude took courage and deserves praise. Hopefully, the Committee will make the change official at its meeting today. The members should not insist, as does Mrs. Hicks, that the boycott be cancelled as a prelude to discussions. Such a demand would oblige the Negro community to surrender its only bargaining advantage and to trust blindly in the good faith of the Committee. The attitude of school authorities over the last half...
Besides being an effective protest for integration, the boycott provides a valuable education for those participating. The Freedom Schools, set up around the city, are designed to give the Negro student a new respect for learning, as well as to help him find a place in the national civil rights movement. The boycott's planners are asking for volunteers to help prepare and execute the stay-out. For months many Harvard students have vocally deplored the injustice of the white communities of Birmingham and Jackson. There is injustice here, too, and it demands student action...