Rally in favour of busing
(N Z P A -Reuter—Copyright) BOSTON, Oct. 14.
About 1000 black parents, students, and community leaders, joined by some whites, yesterday held this city’s first demonstration in support of a school integration plan which has caused two weeks of racial strife. Some 600 of the demonstrators marched peacefully from the black slums of Roxbury to the historic Boston common, where they were met by about 400 others. Political and civic leaders at the rally urged peaceful adherence to the school busing law. The integration programme calls for the transport of black children into schools in the main white areas of the city — a move which has met with violence in the predominantly Irish south Boston area. Because tomorrow is a legal holiday, the city is expected to maintain the uneasy calm which has prevailed over the week-end. But nearly 500 State and city police will be on duty again on Tuesday as the fifth week of busing begins.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33665, 15 October 1974, Page 19
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