Word: boycotts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Detroit need not take part in court-ordered plans for integrating that city's schools. Our choice isn't between busing and perfect justice, but between busing and the kind of unequal education documented in the books of people like Jonathan Kozol '58. And just as black people's boycott of Montgomery's bus lines took on a symbolic importance in addition to its real one, so that victory helped spark new militance on other, even more important issues, so the integration of Boston's schools has become a symbol in the eyes of the country and the world...
...produced many of the city's leading politicians. Among them: former House Speaker John W. McCormack and Louise Day Hicks, the mother of two and champion of neighborhood schools, first as head of the school committee and lately as city councilwoman. Her white constituents organized a two-week boycott of schools, justifying their opposition to busing on grounds of racism and fear for their children's safety. Explained Thomas O'Connell, father of seven: "The question is: Am I going to send my young daughter, who is budding into the flower of womanhood, into Roxbury...
...most of the city, the boycott largely failed, and some 66% of the city's public students showed up for Thursday's school opening. But in South Boston, 90% of the white children stayed away from school. So did similarly large numbers of the black children, most from Roxbury, who had been reassigned to Southie's schools. Outside the brown-brick fortress of South Boston High School, which had a projected enrollment of 1,539 (797 black), a jeering, mostly teen-aged crowd of whites threw stones and bottles at two yellow buses that carried...
...some 200 stone-throwing white youths. A black student and a policeman received minor injuries. In response to the violence, Boston Civil Rights Leader Thomas Atkins urged black parents to keep their children home from the high school. The white parents vowed to keep up their boycott this week, and even talked of extending it while they try again to challenge the desegregation order in court...
...branches in Cambridge were selling iceberg lettuce with the United Farmworkers seal on it. There was no formal agreement between A&P and the UFW, unlike its arrangements with Boston's four other major food chains, but UFW supporters regarded the outcome of their 15-month boycott of A&P as a victory...