Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Archie Epps 2G and Thomas I. Atkins, a Harvard graduate student on leave to work as executive secretary of the Boston chapter of the NAACP, led the march...
Sponsored by NAACP...
...Monday the State Board of Education apparently came to the aid of the NAACP, calling for an end to "racial imbalance" wherever it exists in Massachusetts schools...
Perhaps as a first step in its plan to make de facto segregation an issue in this fall's school board elections, the NAACP Monday distributed a flier labeling Mrs. Hicks as a "muddling, inept white woman," whose actions could only be regarded with "resentment, intimidation and pity...
...flier said the School Committee has refused to discuss segregation because an admission of its existence "would also make school officials directly responsible for relieving these conditions." Defending its decision to make no concessions on terminology in the dispute, the NAACP declared that "we now feel that regardless of where we had made our stand, the school committee would have wavered and vaccilated, and in the end done nothing...