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...James P. Breeden, co-chairman of the Boston School Stay-out Committee, said last night at the B.U. Law Forum that the legal controversy raised by Atty Gen. Edward W. Brooke's statement - that the stayout would be "unlawful" - had obscured the basic issue of defects school segregation...
Answering a question on transportation of students to schools outside their own neighborhoods, Breeden said that the NAACP had never proposed "bussing" for Boston. By objecting loudly to such a plan, he added, the School Committee created the impression that it was part of the NAACP program...
Other members of the Divinity School panel were Archic Epps 2G, James L. Adams, professor of Divinity, and the Rev. James P. Breeden, a member of the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity...
Emasculated by segregation itself, the church has been unable to take an effective stand against segregation in society, Breeden declared. He said the Southern response to the 1954 Supreme Court decision exemplifies the "moral weakness" in the position of the churches. While the highest levels of the church advised Christians to abide by the law of the land, Southern congregations financed parochial schools "precisely to avoid desegregation...
...Breeden called it "ironic" that the church had to establish special commissions and committees to further integration. He said that segregationists had reacted to such committees with "surprise, shock and withdrawal...