Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The boycott, organized by the Massachusetts Freedom Movement, was aimed at dramatizing Negro grievances over the schools, especially the alleged existence of de facto segregation.
The schools will offer a day-long course on employment, education and Negro history. According to boycott leader James P. Breeden, attendance at the schools is necessary to make the protest against to facte segregation valid.
Eisenstadt urged an "immediate scientific study" of the Boston schools to determine exactly what effect racial imbalance has had on the city's Negroes. The studies which indicated that segregation is harmful to Negroes have been made in the South and in New York City; they do not necessarily reflect...
"Segregation exists even more emphatically at the level of higher education in America than in public elementary and secondary schools," Lawrence C. Howard, Consultant to the Higher Education Commission of the N.Y. State Department of Education, said Friday at the Law School Forum.
The Rev. James P. Breeden, co-chairman of the Boston School Stay-out Committee, said last night at the B.U. Law Forum that the legal controversy raised by Atty Gen. Edward W. Brooke's statement - that the stayout would be "unlawful" - had obscured the basic issue of defects school segregation...