Word: naacp
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Surely most Boston voters have heard of Mrs. Hicks and know what she stands for. Since she refused, in the face of NAACP demands, to admit that de facto segregation exists in the Boston, schools, she has received extensive publicity. She has consistently emphasized her opposition to the NAACP and to every attempt it has made to integrate the sixteen predominantly Negro schools in Boston...
...results of the election suggest that Mrs. Hicks had profited by her opposition to Negroes' demands. When she first ran for School Committee two years ago, she finished with 40,000 votes. Arthur Gartland-the only member of the School Committee who has been willing to consider NAACP demands-ran only 1000 votes behind her then. Last week Mrs. Hicks increased her lead over Gartland; she had 128,000 votes to Gartland...
Herbert Hill, national labor secretary of the NAACP, yesterday evaluated the civil rights bill now before Congress as "not worth the paper it's printed on. The Kennedy administration has compromised its integrity by cutting out the heart, the guts, of the bill," he said...
Four Yale students have been beaten during the last two days in Mississippi, both by police and incensed southern citizens. The Yalies have been working in the mock gubernatorial campaign of Aaron Henry, president of the NAACP in the state...
...another local move yesterday, the NAACP Legal defense and Educational Fund filed a motion in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the court to set bail for Perdew and three other Northern college students in the Americas, Ga., county jail. The students, all volunteer civil rights workers, were indicted Aug. 8 for "inciting to insurrection." They were leaders in a drive to break the color bar at a local movie theater...