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...NAACP, which walked out of a meeting with the School Committee last Thursday, issued a public statement Monday night that strongly attacked both the Committee and its embattled chairman, Mrs. Louise Day Hicks...
Having been denied a discussion on the subject with the Committee, the NAACP has decided to pursue its objective on a number of fronts. Pickets are now parading in front of School Committee headquarters daily, and the NAACP is planning to take its petition to court. Upon the advice of the National office, local officials have decided to follow the example of other cities and press for a court order...
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...
Throughout the battle observers have sensed a restiveness among NAACP members to challenge the Committee with such a march. One was planned for last week before the Committee agreed to hear NAACP grievances last night...