Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Students who watched the "freedom stay-out" Wednesday at boycott headquarters, freedom schools, or the City Hall rally reported three impressions. They were struck by the purposefulness and orderly enthusiasm of freedom school students, broken only by jubilant freedom songs. They noticed the closeness of the movement's leaders to the participants--"They were really from the people," one girl said. Finally, the students said "a sense of beginning" pervaded the boycott...
...hard for participants to see the stay-out in any other perspective, since the response was so emotional that even the dearest political issues were forced into the background. The implications and repercussions of the issues were farthest from peoples' minds...
...have on Boston's ecumenical movement. Sectarian division between Catholics and Protestants on school integration has been troubling Boston religious leaders interested in unity, but they have been reluctant to bring the split into the open. Richard Cardinal Cushing has supported the Boston School Committee's contention that the stay-out was harmful, practically siding with the smug bigotry of Committeewoman Louise Day Hicks. Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes, on the other hand, has sided with the boycott leaders. One of the movement's co-chairmen is Canon James P. Breeden, a Negro Episcopalian minister. Many Protestant clergymen gave their...
...stay-out was designed to protest the Boston School Committee's failure to produce, at the NAACP'S request, a time-table of steps for reducing de facto segregation in public schools. The Boston press has consistently added "alleged" to "de facto segregation," but almost no one denies that the Roxbury public schools are in fact ninety percent segregated. Mrs. Hicks only claims that changing the Roxbury situation would involve sending children by bus from one neighborhood to another, an uprooting which she considers cruel. The NAACP, on the other hand, has announced that it too is opposed...
...more important than the emotion of the isolated issue of the "freedom stay-out" is what the boycott has done to strength Boston's civil rights movement. The Hub has been slowest of the northern industrial centers to evolve a militant civil rights movement. Partly this is because the Negroes population is relatively small, partly it is because Negroes here are not quite so oppressively impoverished as in New York or Chicago. New York passed through these relatively pleasant phases of the movement which Boston is experiencing well over a year ago. The Negro civil rights leadership there...