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...Boston there is no de facto segregation and thus no racial issue...
These assumptions and the facts disagree. De facto segregation does exist in Boston. Many elementary schools are over 80 per cent Negro. Several exceed 95 per cent...
...York City's million-pupil school system was threatened early this week with a massive Negro boycott in protest against de facto segregated schools. Whether or not the boycott made its point, the nation's biggest school system seemed deeper than ever in the North's most difficult dilemma...
...Administration has rightly disallowed the AAAAS's proposed sliding admission scale for James Baldwin's speech on the grounds that the plan was discriminatory. As recent campaigns against de facto segregation have maintained, the areas that would have received preferential treatment are predominately Negro. The motivation of O. Martin Anochie, president of the AAAAS, can hardly have been to help "persons who can't afford high admission prices" as he claims, since other sections of Boston qualify with Dorchester and Roxbury as depressed areas. What Anochie should have said, but did not, was that he wished to help Negroes...
...that year, the Negroes made more gains than they had achieved in any year since the end of the Civil War. A speedup in school integration in the South brought to 1,141 the number of desegregated school districts. In the North, city after city re-examined de facto school segregation and set up plans to redress the balance. In 300 cities in the South, public facilities-from swimming pools to restaurants-were integrated, and in scores of cities across the nation, leaders established biracial committees as a start toward resolving local inequities...