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...appeared the NAACP was prepared to make a decisive new move against the Committee. Association leaders will meet this morning to map out final plans, but most likely they will bring a suit against the School Committee. Unlike many other states, the Massachusetts state commissioner of education lacks the power to ban, by decree, racial imbalances in public schools...
...projected one-hour meeting between the two groups broke up after only 18 minutes last night, when chairman Louise Day Hicks ruled NAACP representatives out of order for attempting to discuss de facto segregation. Amid the glare of television lights, the NAACP members walked out of the packed meeting room on the third floor of the School Committee building, 15 Beacon...
Over 1000 people from every state and congressional district in the country will attend the meeting, officially titled the "NAACP Grassroots Leadership Conference." The main purpose of the gathering, a prelude to the Aug. 28 march on Washington, is to win congressional support for President Kennedy's civil rights bill...
...Peabody will be represented by James Purdy and Richard Banks. Attorney General Edward Brooke, Cardinal Cushing, the Republican state committee, and the Boston branch of the NAACP are also sending official representatives...
Epps said yesterday that the Massachusetts delegates, besides lobbying for the NAACP position on the civil rights bill, will try to get Senators and Representatives to define exactly their positions on the proposed legislation. He said this information will be publicized in Massachusetts and used during the massive Aug. 28 march...