Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What they got was Operation Exodus, a group of parents who, without pay, and without much professional help, are busing more than 800 children out of predominantly Negro areas such as Roxbury into schools elsewhere in the city. Exodus' success in the Negro community has been startling. Its enrollment this year is almost double that of last, and there is a waiting list. The parents have done more than supervising the busing; from their storefront office on Roxbury's Blue Hill Avenue, they have started tutorial and recreational programs...
Until recently, this was largely the fault of the School Committee. With the committee's approval, Exodus could have applied for a share of the large amount of Federal money available for educational "demonstration projects." But the committee, though it gave such approval to a program for busing Negro children to suburban schools, wasn't willing to give it to Exodus...
Then Harvard offered a way out. A number of researchers at the Ed School wanted to sponsor a project that would study Exodus' effect on the children it carries and their parents. As part of the project, they planned to ask the Office of Education for enough money to support Exodus generously for the duration of the study -- at least a year. It seemed to be both a good idea and a politically feasible one. Though the support of the Boston School Committee wasn't necessary, it was won. The members of the committee favored the research part...
...last week, Commissioner of Education Harold Howe II told Harvard and Exodus that the plan had been rejected. The Office of Education, he said, might fund the research, but it could not provide the money that had been requested -- almost $160,000 -- for Exodus. He explained that these were far from normal operating expenses in a research proposal and, with little research money available anyway, they had to be cut. It was possible, he said, that some money could be provided for Exodus -- and it seemed clear that he was impressed by Exodus and not against the idea of federal...
Only on Christmas day, when the prisons were serving a holiday banquet, was there a pause in the exodus. One escapee even re-enacted a stunt from the Peter Sellers movie Two Way Stretch: he rode to freedom secreted in side a prison garbage truck, all the while desperately ducking the automatic arm that crushes the refuse. Lest would-be escapees lack so antic an imagination, the Mountbatten committee provided a few suggestions of its own. As it out lined weak points in the prison security system, it theorized about a whole range of potential escapes - from prisoners scooped...