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...Boston School Committee and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People fought another inconslusive battle last night in their continuing dispute over the existence of de facto segregation in the city's schools...
...projected one-hour meeting between the two groups broke up after only 18 minutes last night, when chairman Louise Day Hicks ruled NAACP representatives out of order for attempting to discuss de facto segregation. Amid the glare of television lights, the NAACP members walked out of the packed meeting room on the third floor of the School Committee building, 15 Beacon...
...walk-out was not very surprising to the audience. Two weeks ago the School Committee agreed to meet with the NAACP to discuss "educational matters." The Committeemen made it very clear they do not consider de facto segregation an educational issue...
Under Blau's leadership, the Neturei Karta sided with the British and the Arabs against Israel's struggle for independence, and it now holds that Jerusalem is an extraterritorial city under U.N. jurisdiction. "I do not recognize Israel de jure or de facto," says Blau. "The worst part of the Jewish state is that what all the nations of the world did not succeed in doing during the years of exile, Israel is now doing. The gentiles wanted to sever Jews from the Torah but did not succeed. Zionists are now succeeding. It is heresy...
...facto segregation is an extremely complex problem. Undoubtedly it exists in Boston, principally because most of the city's Negroes live in the Roxbury and Dorchester sections, and their children attend the same schools. But whether merely shuffling students from school district to school district will provide an adequate answer remains quite an open question. The problem involves other elements: discrimination in housing, which keeps Negroes in the ghetto areas; discrimination in employment, which not only limits the ability of the average Negro family to move away from the ghetto, but also has a deleterious affect on the school work...