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Parks, Paul Rollins, Bryant Merrill, Charles Holson, Al Dammond, Peggy Trotter Bolling, Royal Connelly, Tom Day, Noel Hill, Adelaide Houston, Julian Mascott, Ted Gartner, Alan Stokes, Anson Phelps Rosen, Sumner Pettigrew, Thomas

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In June 1963 the Education Committee of the Boston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) presented the Boston School Committee with a 14-Point Proposal to end de facto segregation in the public schools. The contentious and failed negotiations precipitated a series of nonviolent, direct action demonstrations in Boston, not the least of which was the June 18, 1963 Stay Out for Freedom Day. The Massachusetts Freedom Movement, co-chaired by Rev. James Breeden, St. James Episcopal Church and Noel Day, Director, St. Marks Social Center, called for a Stay Out for Freedom direct action whereby Black junior and senior high school students would attend Freedom Schools rather than the Boston public schools. In the two and a half hour special segment, “Reaction to the Boycott Report,” WGBH covered much the day’s activities at the St. Mark’s Social Center, one of the nine Freedom Schools organized by the civil rights leaders. The activities included reports on the negotiations with the Boston School Committee; the singing of Freedom Songs; and lectures by community leaders and college professors on the civil rights struggle across the country and in Boston, nonviolent direct action, civic and educational responsibilities, governmental processes, Negro History, and African History. The Freedom School Program was moderated by Peggy Trotter Dammond, St. Mark’s Social Center and student at Boston University and led in Freedom Songs by Julian Houston, also a Boston University and member of SNCC. The bi-racial faculty included: Royal Bolling, State Representative (Roxbury) and...
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