Word: koretz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ruling inflamed whites at Wilson all over again. "These children will never be welcome here," vowed Mrs. Judy Koretz, president of the Wilson School Parents' Association. White parents organized a boycott that shut down the neighborhood's eight schools, idling some 9,500 young people-many of whom spilled out into the streets and threatened one another with bats and chains. Police escorted the Brownsville children into Wilson, but the school was nearly empty, and after lunch they simply sat in an auditorium-watching a film on democracy...