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...every other elementary school in town. The board, nobly it thought, got a city-wide vote to build a fine new Lincoln on the same spot. Negro parents countered with a federal suit on then-novel grounds: it is just as unconstitutional to compel Negroes to attend a de facto segregated school in the North as a de jure segregated school in the South...
...NAACP's chief complaint is that de facto segregation exists in the 13 schools located in Roxbury and Dorchester, the areas of Boston in which most of the city's Negroes live. Reiterating a charge that has been heard in many Northern cities of late, the NAACP says not only population patterns but the zoning of school contributed to the situation...
...While de facto segregation is their major grievance, Negro leaders are also protesting low relative expenditures in Roxbury, the condition of school buildings, inadequate text books, lack of crucial supplies, and the fact that only 40 of the school system's 2000 teachers are Negroes...
...ENGLEWOOD, NJ. The state commissioner of education ordered Englewood's Lincoln School to adopt a plan for ending de facto segregation before September, thereby signaling an end to a nine-year-old dispute. In 1954 the city school board redrew school boundaries in a way that concentrated Negro students in the Lincoln district. Negroes have fought the move since...
...LOUIS. About 500 demonstrators paraded in front of board of education headquarters singing hymns and chanting prayers in a peaceful, two-hour protest against de facto segregation in St. Louis' heavily Negro neighborhoods...