Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School Committee's decision was considered a breakthrough for the NAACP, which has been seeking a meeting with the group since August...
Voting followed an hour of excited argument about whether the Negro association actually wished to discuss educational matters. Chairman William E. O'Connor and Mrs. Louise Day Hicks said that the NAACP would attempt to bring up alleged de facto segregation in the Boston schools, which they described as a housing, rather than an educational, problem...
Joseph Lee, Thomas S. Eisenstadt, and Arthur J. Gartland, all of whom supported the motion made by Eisenstadt, declared that the Committee should not prejudge the proposals of the NAACP...
...School Committee stemmed from a motion introduced by Lee and passed at last week's meeting. He directed the Committee to write to the Negro group reaffirming its willingness to hear citizens' opinions on specific educational steps that the Committee might take to better Boston education. The NAACP reply, however, mentioned no specific measures...
Paul Parks, spokesmen for the NAACP, last night hailed the Committee's vote as an "important step in reestablishing lines of communication." He expressed "cautions hope" that the meeting might lead to agreement between the two factions, which have been feuding since last summer...