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...campaigns and demonstrations erupted like machine-gun fire in every major city in the North, as well as in hundreds of new places in the South. Negroes demanded better job opportunities, an end to the de facto school segregation that ghetto life had forced upon them. The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, a calm, cool civil rights leader, lost some of his calmness and coolness. Said he: "My objectivity went out the window when I saw the picture of those cops sitting on that woman and holding her down by the throat." Wilkins promptly joined a street demonstration, got himself...
...significantly larger part of the Comfonwealth's Negro citizens live in this area than did a dozen years ago. These people must spend more money for poorer housing than other citizens and their children attend inferior schools because the Boston School Committee refuses to acknowledge the existence of de facto segregation...
...collect rents on sub-standard dwellings and to use the money for correction of building code violations. Among welcome, if unlikely, actions governmental bodies might take are the building of more urban renewal projects for low income families in Roxbury and the redrawing of school lines to end de facto segregation in education...
Since Boston public housing projects now have "de facto" segregation, the committee called for amendment of the Presidential Housing Order to include present public housing among those projects which can receive federal funds only by complying with the order's anti-discrimination provisions...
...United States has always had de facto religion, despite any court rulings, Howe said. Criticizing the "doctrinaire" attitude that government aid to religion is unconstitutional, he said he saw no reason that the government should not aid Boston College just as it did Harvard...