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Rankled Blacks. It was more than a decade later, after a lawsuit, a massive black boycott of the schools, and the disaccreditation of the district's high schools, that the Jacksonville school board and the N.A.A.C.P. were called to meet a federal three-judge panel in Atlanta and ordered to produce a desegregation plan. The accepted two-phase plan, for '71 and '72, aimed at achieving 30% black enrollment in all but a few of the county's schools, but also called for the closing of nine of the previously black schools, either because their facilities...
...Straighten a section and a wrinkle appears there; soothe a ten mile-square district here and a minor outburts erupts there. Wednesday, in Charlestown, white youths pelted troopers and new, bussed arrivals, then boycotted classes all day. Thursday night a Charlestown woman who sent her children past the boycott received a dreaded phone-call--beware of fire-bombs. Friday night, right here in Roxbury, police arrested a black youth, Henry Alexander Jr., at his home on Dudley St., and charged him with having been a "disorderly person" at school that morning. He attended historically black-dominated English High...
...Straighten a section and a wrinkle appears there; soothe a ten mile-square district here and a minor outburts erupts there. Wednesday, in Charlestown, white youths pelted troopers and new, bussed arrivals, then boycotted classes all day. Thursday night a Charlestown woman who sent her children past the boycott received a dreaded phone-call--beware of fire-bombs. Friday night, right here in Roxbury, police arrested a black youth, Henry Alexander Jr., at his home on Dudley St., and charged him with having been a "disorderly person" at school that morning. He attended historically black-dominated English High...
...week's end the boycott was over, but thousands of blacks were still staying home to guard their property against arson and looting. "You are well out of that mess," a black policeman told a white reporter who tried to enter Soweto. "They have all lost their minds...
...safety of "white" Johannesburg, employers declared that the boycott had been largely ineffective. No vital services had been disrupted, and only about a third of the Soweto work force had stayed home for all three days. Some employers considered docking the pay of absentees, but others urged their colleagues not to retaliate in any way. "A money-earning black is a happy black," counseled one executive. "Deprive him of livelihood, and you lose a potential ally when the crunch comes...