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...know what she stands for. Since she refused, in the face of NAACP demands, to admit that de facto segregation exists in the Boston, schools, she has received extensive publicity. She has consistently emphasized her opposition to the NAACP and to every attempt it has made to integrate the sixteen predominantly Negro schools in Boston...
There is no escaping the fact that de facto segregation exists in the Boston public school system. The presence of sixteen schools--fifteen elementary and one junior high--with overwhelmingly Negro enrollments refuses the School Committee's claim that there is no segragation. There can also be no doubt that students in these sixteen schools receive a poorer education than do other students...
...anticipated it all. It will be a long hard battle, we had told ourselves. But in the dank, filthy, crowded (on the Negro side, fourteen and sixteen people in cells made for four) Albany jail, the struggle to stay merely human had obscured the social battle. Once free, a sense of the complete futility of our suffering settled down upon us like a heavy, enervating...
Last year's plans called for a similar session in the spring, but it never came off. Sixteen Harvard students were then involved in the plans. Langan said that nine of these men had since graduated...
John J. Kerrigan, convicted of the murder of a Cambridge policeman, will be electrocuted in Walpole State Prison on Thursday. Last week, the Massachusetts Executive Council decided to reject Governor Peabody's appeal for mercy. The execution will be the first in this state in sixteen years; the other death sentences since 1947 have all been commuted to life imprisonment...