Text transcribed from caption: PC-30565 NEW YORK SCHOOL BOYCOTT KEEPS MANY OUT OF CLASS NEW YORK -- Many students went to class on schedule, but thousands of others observed a one-day boycott of all New York City schools to protest racial imbalance in the system. The demonstration was the largest of its kind ever held in the country, with 464, 361 students -- 44.8 percent of the total enrollment -- observing the boycott. Though "freedom song" renditions and shouting marked the march around schools, the picketing was orderly and unobstructed. Many of the boycotting students spent the day in "freedom schools" established mainly in local churches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-2B-64-NBM)

New York Herald Tribune (Firm) (author)

1964
February 3, 1964

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 7 x 9 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Galamison, Milton A. (Milton Arthur), 1923-1988.

Boycotts--New York (State)--New York.
Racial justice in education--New York (State)--New York.
Civil rights demonstrations--New York (State)--New York.
Student movements--New York (State)--New York.
African American students--New York (State)--New York.
Civil rights movements--United States.

New York (State)
New York.
United States.
New York (N.Y.)
North and Central America--United States--New York--New York

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, image no. PC-30565; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_PC-30565

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