Desegregation and busing in Boston public schools handouts, 1963-1965.

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Desegregation and busing in Boston public schools handouts, 1963-1965.

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Collection consists of four handouts advocating for the desegregation of the Boston public schools. Two of the handouts were issued from the Boston Branch of the NAACP. The first, dated Aug. 16, 1963 and signed by Kenneth I. Guscott, president of the NAACP Boston Branch, outlines the organization's objectives to end segregation. The second, annotated on the verso in ms. with the date Aug. 21, 1963, explains "de facto segregation." A third handout, entitled: The 14 points submitted to the Boston School Committee, is unsigned, but annotated on the verso in ms. with the date July 29, 1963. The final handout, annotated with the date of 1965, bears the title: Bussing [sic] is not the issue! A public teach-in and debate on the Kiernan report and racial imbalance in the Massachusetts schools ... sponsored by Catholic Interracial Council, Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity, Presbyterian Interracial Council.

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Boston Athenaeum

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Boston Branch

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Presbyterian Interracial Council (Boston, Mass.)

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Kiernan, Owen Burns.

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Catholic Inter-Racial Council (Boston, Mass.)

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Boston, Mass. School Committee

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Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity (Boston, Mass.)

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Boston Public Schools

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The Boston Public School system dates from 1647 and is the oldest public school system in the U.S.; in 1798 the School Committee (formed 1710) denied a group of black parents their request to establish separate schools for their children due to the unequal treatment they received; in 1812 the School Committee voted to support separate schools for blacks and by a830 a completely separate educational system was functioning. In 1850 the doctrine of separate but equal facilities for dif...

Catholic Interracial Council (Boston, Mass.)

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Guscott, Kenneth I.

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