Word: naacp
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...Louise Day Hicks, Chairman of the Boston School Committee, has shown an admirable, if tardy, sense of public responsibility in agreeing to meet with the education committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people to discuss the plight of the Negro in Boston schools. The NAACP had vowed to march on School Committee offices if a meeting was not granted, and for the moment the Association has agreed to suspend all demonstrations...
...Hicks, however, circumscribed the value of her announcement by citing the possibility of public disorder as the reason for granting the NAACP's request. NAACP officials had promised any demonstration would be strictly controlled by an internal police force, as previous demonstrations have been. They could have been taken at their word in this matter, and Mrs. Hicks was only impugning the integrity of the NAACP by doubting the validity of their promise to preserve order...
There are enough other reasons for Mrs. Hicks to agree to another meeting with the education committee. Six of the 10 members she appointed to a BiRacial Community Committee to act as a liaison between the Negro community and the school committee have resigned in favor of the NAACP. And the Association can make a pretty strong case that it does have the support of a large segment of the Negro community. In addition, the NAACP initiated the whole investigation of Boston schools in June...
Even though a meeting will probably be held on Aug. 15, little hope can be held out for any real progress. The NAACP's first objective is to obtain an admission from the School Committee that de facto segregation exists in the local school system. Both Mrs. Hicks and School Committeeman Thomas Eisenstadt have already indicated they will not reverse their refusal to recognize such a charge...
...NAACP's chief complaint is that de facto segregation exists in the 13 schools located in Roxbury and Dorchester, the areas of Boston in which most of the city's Negroes live. Reiterating a charge that has been heard in many Northern cities of late, the NAACP says not only population patterns but the zoning of school contributed to the situation...