Winter, Edward J Eisenstadt, Thomas Mascott, Ted Guscott, Kenneth Atkins, Thomas Lee, Joseph OConnor, William Gartland, Arthur Hicks, Louise Day
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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, including the Stay Out for Freedom Day on June 18, 1963 in which 3,000 stayed away from the Boston Public Schools and attended Freedom Schools organized by the Citizens for Human Rights organization. Various civil rights groups picketed outside the Boston School Committee Headquarters at 15 Beacon Street during the summer. Later, the School Committee conceded to meet with the NAACP on August 13, 1963 only to summarily end the meeting when Ruth Batson, Chair of the Education Committee, mentioned the term, de facto segregation. On Thursday, September 5, 1963, the NAACP stepped up the nonviolent direct action protests by organizing a Sit-In at the School Committee Headquarters. In the Boston School Committee Report on Sit-Ins, WGBH interviews Thomas Atkins, Executive Secretary of the Boston Branch of the NAACP who explains the grievances and events leading up to the Sit-In demonstration. The program also includes comments by Louise Day Hicks, Chair of the Boston School Committee, about the failed negotiations and NAACP Sit-In. In addition, Boston School Committee Report on Sit-Ins program provides extensive excerpts of the regular meeting of the Boston School Committee held on Friday September 6, 1963 in which the committee members voted...
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- African Americans
- African Americans Civil Rights
- African Americans Educational Opportunities
- African Americans Human Rights
- African Americans Social Justice
- African Americans Structural Racism
- Boston School Committee
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Era
- Discrimination
- Freedom Schools
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- Race Relations Boston School Committee Negotiations
- Race Relations De Facto Segregation
- Race Relations Northern Discrimination
- Race Relations Racial Imbalance
- Roxbury, Massachusetts
- Stay Out For Freedom Day