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Better Schools for Boston Committee

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Donated by Frank Miranda.This flyer details the current state of the School Committee, and asks people to vote for two candidates to replace them. This tactic started early in the movement as a way to have better, more sympathetic committee members to help work on the issue of racial imbalance.
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Better Schools For Boston Committee
  3. Boston
  4. Boston (Mass.) School Committee
  5. Education
  6. Gartland, Arthur J
  7. King, Melvin H
  8. Massachusetts
  9. Public Schools
  10. Race Relations

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Melvin H. King for school committee. Press release, July 24, 1963. Memo, visits to schools - preliminary report, May 1, 1981. Letter, Leon Trilling, January 27, 1969. C.D.A.C. I mail log - correspondence rece. Letter, William O'Connor. De facto segregation in the Boston Public Schools. Boston ballots can draw school bigotry in November. Memo, Code of Discipline review committee, March 27, 1981. Letter, the school system in five years. An open letter...to friends of South Boston High School. Letter, Citywide Parents' Advisory Council, April 20, 1981. Mr. Paul Parks' statement to the School Committee. Letter, survey of racial composition. Report from the committee on schools. The NAACP and the School Committee Chronology of a crisis. Parent statement to the School Committee of Boston. Black students demands. Letter, Boston School Committee to Citywide Coordination Council, June 9, 1975. Deputy Superintendent's memorandum Code of discipline survey.
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