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...meeting, Parks, who was also a member of the education committee of the NAACP, read a report based on Boston School Department records which showed that Negro schools were overcrowded, that cost per pupil in Negro schools was below the citywide average, and that reading test scores of Negro pupils were below the already low Boston median. The NAACP also requested a hearing with the School Committee which was granted and held on June 11, 1963. The meeting consisted of talks about the inadequacy of facilities for Negro children and ended with the promise of another meeting...
...broke off when the School Committee, under Hicks's leadership, refused to sign a statement admitting the existence of "de facto segregation" in the Boston public schools. According to one Boston political observer this is where the trouble began. "In their insistence on a de facto segregation statement the NAACP failed to realize," he says, "that Louise is a lawyer and a politician. For her the phrase de facto segregation connotates deliberate discrimination, which was not the case in Boston...
...article was a blow to the Howard initiative, but not yet a deadly one. Roy Wilkins wrote to say he had not known the NAACP was reprinting it: "My opinion of the Ryan piece and of similiar reasoning is well known to my immediate associate here....It is a silly and sinister distortion to classify as racist this inevitable discussion of a recognized phase of our so-called race problem." Wilkins's attitude was shared by other Negro leaders. During the summer, Whitney Young, Jr. several times noted, properly, that he had for years been writing about just such questions...
Aaron Henry, a state NAACP leader, and Marion Wright, one of the six Negro lawyers in Mississippi, have both spoken at the Law School this year. A few years ago, they never would have been invited. In contrast, Medford Evans, a long-time representative of the White Citizen's Council, spoke at the Law School this fall, but his reception was substantially less favorable than in the past. Evans was pressed, as Don Allen recounts it, and inconsistencies in his views were sharply attacked...
...indicative of the struggle going in within the "movement" is grossly inadequate. There are groups which have reached compromises between the two extremes which can't be wedged into either category. If Carmcihael's own organization, SNCC, is representative of the extreme left in the civil rights spectrum and NAACP at the extreme right, there are other groups which have reached a middle ground solution to the problem of whites working in Roxbury...