Word: racially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leaders of Boston's black community will head a "walk" to Boston Common during today's papal mass to protest Friday's shooting of a black football player in Charlestown and to focus attention on the city's racial problems...
Supporters of the walk hope to take advantage of the Pope's arrival to emphasize the importance of cooperation and the ending of racial violence. "We intend to walk and raise the spiritual consciousness of this city with the moral and spiritual leader of a people here," King said...
...addition to calling for the end of racial violence and the prosecution of the assailants of Darryl Williams, the Jamaica Plain High football player shot in Friday's incident, the group will demand the resignation of James Kelly, a member of Boston Mayor Kevin H. White's administration and an opponent of busing for desegregation of the city's schools...
Eugene J. Green '80, president of the Harvard Black Students Association (BSA), attended the meeting at the invitation of members of the coalition. Green announced in this meeting that black students were seriously concerned with the racial problems of Boston. He said that a group of black students, though not officially the BSA, are circulating a petition calling for a show of solidarity with the protesters...
...Friday of last week, police had taken five white suspects in the stoning into custody, and White pointed to the arrests as evidence of his determination to fight racial violence in his city. The arrests came at a bad moment for White, campaigning hard in the white neighborhoods that are Timilty's strongholds. White, who has always carried Roxbury and the South End, must also fight his image as a do nothing mayor for the black community of Boston. White, and every other candidate for office this election, naturally rushed to affirm his concern for the schoolchildren, after Headmaster Winegar...