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...community leader can match the Boston School Committee's influence in rousing Roxbury to anger. By most accounts, the community first came alive in the spring and summer of 1965. That spring, Roxbury's Reverend Vernon Carter kept a month-long vigil at the entrance of the School Department at 15 Beacon St., dramatizing the issues of de facto segregation and poor ghetto schooling...
They rose, thanked the "reverend clergy, distinguished guests at the high table, ladies and gentlemen," and praised "Walter's lovely wife Marion and his five wonderful children." A few evoked memories of Sullivan's late father, Michael A. "Mickey the Dude" Sullivan, who founded the Sullivan political dynasty. "He must be looking down from heaven, happy that there's not a warmer person in public or private life than Walter," was how one speaker...
...record myself as one who signed the resolution to support conscientious draft-resisters to the Vietnam war. I did in fact send in my signature, but perhaps too late for publication. May I ask that you now record my name as one of those in support of the Reverend Richard Mumma's statement. Cedric H. Whitman Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature
...REVEREND believes the "Civil Rights Movement" per se is over in the sense that the demonstrations of the early 60's are no longer a viable tactic. "Sit-ins and boycotts were versatile within a limited area," he says, but now blacks must realize this is not the best way to bring pressure on the white policy-makers. The problems, he repeats, have changed, and are larger than a discriminating restaurateur or busline...
...Boston, Mayor Kevin D. White announced a Memorial service for noon today at the Boston Common. Mayor White, Cardinal Cushing, and the Reverend James, Breedon will speak at the service, which is sponsored by the Massachusetts Council of Churches...