On the first day of the Spring semester in 1964, the New York public school system was struck by a boycott through which citywide organizations managed virtually to empty every ghetto school. The object was integration; the results were eight …
A Mother in History by Jean Stafford Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966, 121 pp., $3.95 Jean Stafford was sent to interview Mrs. Marguerite Oswald by McCall’s, the ladies’ magazine. Miss Stafford does not pretend to examine in detail the case …
Over the ’64 Christmas holidays, 37 Negro high school students from McComb, Mississippi, were brought to New York by private funds raised by two COFO volunteers who had spent the summer teaching in the McComb “Freedom School.” The McComb kids …
Let me start with some statistics. There are 132 elementary schools and 31 junior high schools in New York City whose students are almost entirely (over 90% in the elementary schools; over 85% in the junior highs) Negro and Puerto …
1.) I am a radical because as a child I found myself in a world of lies. The three lies which, put together, make the biggest lie, are the lies of sex, money and authority. We were taught by conscious …
TUESDAY, May 3rd, was one of those lovely Spring days in New York: the Yanks were playing Detroit and the trees in City Hall Park were putting out new leaves. Yet before the day was over, Civil Defense officials were …
