Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least five Yale students and two non-Yale members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee have been arrested in Mississippi for their part in the political campaign of Aaron Henry, president of the state branch of the NAACP and a candidate for governor...
Since last June, the NAACP has advanced two proposals which, if acted upon, would reduce the segregation in the Boston schools. First, they ask that school district boundaries be redrawn and new schools located so that no more than fifty per cent of any school's pupils would be Negroes. They claim that even after such action, no child would live more than half a mile from the elementary school he would attend. Second, they have asked the School Committee to make it easier for a student to transfer from school to school...
...School Committee, by a four-to-one vote, refused to admit that any segregation existed and thus has refused to discuss these proposals with the NAACP; however, they facilitated transfer arrangements somewhat. Only one member of the Committee, Arthur land, was even willing to admit the existence of de facto segregation. He finished a ragged fifth in the primary election last month and is in danger of losing on the Committee. Of the other candidates, only Melvin King, a South End social worker, supports the NAACP's proposals; he finished seventh as he did two years ago, but with nine...
...NAACP's requests are reasonable and deserve the which the majority of the School Committee refused to give them. If the tactics of the inte have antagonized many white Bostonians and have made opposition to the NAACP electorally profitable for School Committee candidates, those tactics do not detract from the inherent injustice of de facto segregation. The first step toward ending the in the Boston schools would be the of Arthur Gartland and the election of Melvin King to the School Committee at the general election...
Robert Moses, chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and Allard Loewenstein, a former president of the National Student Association, were among twelve civil rights workers arrested yesterday in Indianola and Clarks-dale, Mississippi for their work in the gubernationial campaign of state NAACP president Aaron Henry...