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Since August 15 the Boston Committee has refused to meet with the NAACP. The Committee's objections, voiced most frequently by Louise Day Hicks, follow a sinuous line of reasoning which centers on three assumptions...
Because the NAACP refuses to sponsor a specific integration plan, the School Committee has accused the Negro leadership of "insincerity." This is obfuscation on the Committee's part. The Committeemen should realize, as does the NAACP, that only qualified specialists can develop a detailed, practical, and fair program of rezoning...
Negro leaders are simply asking the Committee to accept a reasonable timetable for arriving at an integration plan. This just request has met with silence for six months. Hence, in order to dramatize its position and rally the Negro community, the NAACP has called for a one-day boycott of public schools on February 26. Many usually reasonable people, Cardinal Cushing among them, are horrified, fearing that the stayout will confuse and disturb the children involved. While sincere, this fear reflects the "ignorance is bliss" attitude that has long blocked racial progress in the city. Prejudice must be recognized...
...Cause had very little to do with their decision. Aided by a flat, straightforward style, Trillin makes clear that Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter were neither prodded by the NAACP nor initially moved by a deep personal commitment to civil rights activity. From the insular atmosphere of Turner High, Atlanta, they had simply not thought de-segregation possible...
Last October and November civil rights groups in Mississippi conducted one of their most ambitious efforts to date, when they ran Aaron Henry, president of the state NAACP organization, for governor. Chief organizer and fund-raiser of the massive effort was Al Lowenstein, a man with a long record of freedom-fighting...