Word: segregationism
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The next day, however, a group of private citizens and representatives of social work and civil rights organizations announced a proposed boycott of the Boston Schools suggested for June 18. The School Committee met with leaders of the proposed boycott to try and avert it, but negotiations broke off when...
Mrs. Hicks was insulted by the charge of de facto segregation and when an NAACP staffer had taken a statement she had issued, then revised it and released the revised copy to the Boston papers without informing her, she lost all faith in local civil rights groups. She even refused...
Licht, had proposed active opposition to Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, advocate of de facto segregation in the Boston schools, in School Committee elections this fall. In addition he had described an Executive Council disagreement over the question of inviting Georgia's segregationist governor Lester Maddox to speak to the club...
From Bruce until Brooke, Negro politics have been almost totally ghettoized. Negro candidates have had no choice but to accept?and exploit?residential segregation as their only viable route to political power. New York City Democrats have consistently rejected Negro candidates except in districts at least 50% black. Nationwide, the...
During his two terms in office, Brooke dealt with a variety of touchy situations. He collided with Negro leaders in 1963, when he ruled against a plan for a pupils' hooky-for-a-day demonstration against de facto school segregation. He also clashed with both school and church by insisting...