Lyons, Louis Day, Noel Poston, Ted Berlin, Gerald Banks, Richard Howe, Mark DeWolfe

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WGBH news commentator, Louis Lyons conducts a panel discussion on civil rights issues in Boston following Medgar Evers Memorial Rally held earlier on the Boston Common. His guests include: Ted Poston, reporter, New York Post; Professor Mark DeWolfe Howe, Harvard Law School; Noel Day, Director, St. Mark’s Social Center, Roxbury, Massachusetts; Gerald Berlin, former Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and Richard Banks, Vice President, NAACP [and the Governor’s Secretary for Intergroup Affairs]. The panelists reflect on the significance of the Medgar Evers Memorial Rally that took place on the Boston Common on June 26, 1963 as an indication of the commonality of the struggles for civil rights in the North and the South. They give their views on a full range of civil rights issues in Boston including, the failed negotiations between the NAACP and the Boston School Committee; the local activism of the NAACP, the Boston Action Group, Citizens for Human Rights, the Northern Student Movement, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); employment and housing discrimination; the economic status of Black Bostonians; discrimination in trade unions; and prospects for continued nonviolent direct action. Summary and select metadata for this record was submitted by Audrea Dunham.

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