Word: eloy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case history in a development that is spreading across the Northern U.S.: a movement against de facto segregation of schools. Victory in New Rochelle spurred the N.A.A.C.P. to a successful attack on de facto school segregation last year in a dozen Northern communities, from Coatesville, Pa., to Eloy, Ariz. This summer it is "mobilizing direct action" in 70 cities throughout 18 Northern and Western states. School boards are responding, and many a change will have been made by September. All kinds of tools are being tried. Samples...
...under the 14th Amendment to allow the Negroes free access to white schools. More than half the Negroes transferred, leaving their old school near-defunct. Now the N.A.A.C.P. is battling for desegregation in at least 60 target areas from Connecticut to California: ∙Nine communities, from Newark. N.J., to Eloy, Ariz., have voluntarily desegregated. In more than 14 other communities, about half around New York City, the N.A.A.C.P. has filed federal suits or complaints with state officials. In Englewood. N.J.. a Negro store boycott is being urged by Negro Lawyer Paul Zuber. who filed the original New Rochelle suit...