Word: galamison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City, the Rev. Milton A. Galamison, who recently led a vast boycott, announced a second boycott for March 16, despite defections by the top national Negro organizations. Moreover, he set the date for a third "demonstration" - April 22, the day the World's Fair opens...
...York's able School Superintendent Calvin Gross (TIME cover, Nov. 15) fervently wants to equalize Negro schools with a "saturation" dose of extra money and better teachers. "But you can't get enough money from the city or state," counters the Rev. Milton A. Galamison, a Brooklyn Presbyterian minister and graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, who heads a committee that unifies Negro organizations...
...Even if a Negro school were made academically superior," he says, "it would still be unequal, for it could not adjust the child to the context of the culture in which he lives." Galamison called in Bayard Rustin, who worked out the organization of last summer's March on Washington, to run the planned boycott...
...Galamison wants "cross-bussing"-mass transfer of Negroes to white schools and vice versa. Many Negroes prefer the Gross approach. And white parents balk violently, aware that Negro and Puerto Rican children are increasing in numbers at such a rate that soon they will be a majority in the New York school system-in fact, they already are a 3 to 1 majority in Manhattan...
...behind in third grade and most are three years behind in eighth grade, civil righters say that "the schools are manufacturing retarded kids" and blame white teachers who give up too easily (only 8.3% of all New York teachers are Negro). In the typical view of the Rev. Milton Galamison, the problem is "low expectancy on the part of middle-class teachers whose concept of a human being is not met by these children...