Word: stayout
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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Breeden has been active in civil rights organizations. He was one of the co-chairmen of the Boston School Stayout last winter. According to Gibson, he was invited because "we wanted to have a minister participating who would be a representative of the Negro people...
...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...
Parents whose children participate in the planned Feb. 26 Boston School Stayout could not be prosecuted under the truancy laws, Arthur E. Sutherland. Sutherland, Bussey Professor of Law, said yesterday. He added, however that leaders of the Stayout might be held criminally liable...
Many parents had reportedly been frightened by Attorney General Edward W. Brooke's statement Monday that the Stayout--planned as a protest against alleged de facto segregation--would be "unlawful...
This might mean that the leader of the Stayout, and the teachers in the "freedom Schools" the children will attend, could be held criminally liable, according to Sutherland. He doubted, however, that parents would be held liable under this section. Brooke also indicated that this section would probably not be interpreted to include the parents of the absent, children...