Word: obu
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Dates: during 1969-1969
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Representatives of the Organization for Black Unity (OBU) and of the University-in what both sides called "informal talks" -yesterday discussed the OBU demands with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD...
...OBU also announced yesterday plans for a mass rally on Sunday at Memorial Church, for which they are "asking for and expecting to receive support from many sectors of the black community." OBU has invited national black leader Floyd McKissick and Fanny Lou Hamer of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to speak at the rally...
Ralph Abernathy, chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as well as national black leaders McKissick, Roy Innis, and Jessie Jackson have sent messages of support to OBU...
Yesterday afternoon's meeting at the MCAD headquarters on Tremont Street in Boston have no official significance. The Community Relations division of the MCAD a part of the executive branch of the state government served only as mediator between the three OBU delegates and the University representatives...
...They also said that they disagreed with some of OBU's tactics, specifically the agreement to negotiate with the University through the implementation committee...