Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both sides in the potentially explosive dispute over the alleged existence of segregation in the Boston School system have grown more belligerent during the past few days.
Mrs. Hicks and other members of the Committee, meanwhile, have told reporters that their refusal to discuss the possible existence of de facto segregation in Boston is final. The Committee, by a four to one decision at the Thursday session, has decided there is no de facto segregation anywhere in...
Perhaps as a first step in its plan to make de facto segregation an issue in this fall's school board elections, the NAACP Monday distributed a flier labeling Mrs. Hicks as a "muddling, inept white woman," whose actions could only be regarded with "resentment, intimidation and pity."
The 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.
One of the 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.