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...walk-out was not very surprising to the audience. Two weeks ago the School Committee agreed to meet with the NAACP to discuss "educational matters." The Committeemen made it very clear they do not consider de facto segregation an educational issue...
...days later the NAACP accepted the invitation to meet, and listed de facto as the first topic it would like to discuss. Thus the scene for last night's walk out was set long...
...NAACP's national experts on educational matters attended the meeting last night, and afterward charged that the Boston School Committee was the only such board in the country to refuse to recognize the existence of de facto segregation in its school system...
...Committee's stand is that racial imbalances in the school system is a "neighborhood problem" not under its purview. The NAACP retaliates that the problem exists; that it has harmful affects on Negro children, and that it is the Committee's duty to deal with it. The Association makes it clear, however, that it does not believe the Committee is responsible for the racial imbalances in Boston...
...addition to legal suits it is considered a distinct possibility that the NAACP will stage a massive demonstration in front of the School Committee offices in support of its position...