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...Boston School Committee's contention that the stay-out was harmful, practically siding with the smug bigotry of Committeewoman Louise Day Hicks. Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes, on the other hand, has sided with the boycott leaders. One of the movement's co-chairmen is Canon James P. Breeden, a Negro Episcopalian minister. Many Protestant clergymen gave their churches for use as freedom schools...
...schools will offer a day-long course on employment, education and Negro history. According to boycott leader James P. Breeden, attendance at the schools is necessary to make the protest against to facte segregation valid...
Another questioner suggested that Breeden's complaint was really with the housing situation. Breeden answered that "the housing situation is at least in part a result of people growing up and going to do facts segregated schools...
Someone else wondered whether integration would really improve Negro education. Breeden thought both Negroes and whites would benefit: "There is more to education than the factual material learned or the skills acquired, and that 'more' has to do with being involved in the main stream of society...
...asked whether any thought was being given to the rights of those who thought integration a bad thing per se. Breeden smiled and said he thought "their rights are being given adequate consideration under the present political setup...