500,000 BOYCOTT NEW YORK SCHOOLS
An American correspondent reports: "In the biggest civil rights protest demonstration since last summer's "freedom march" on Washington, half a million New York school pupils and teachers boycotted their classes on February 3rd. They were protesting against the de facto segregation in the city's school system, Like other cities in the northern part of the U.S., New York operates a system which results in Negro and Puerto Rican students attending inferior schools. The New York Board of Wducation has promised tO redraw the school district boundaries but the loaders of the civil rights campsign say thoy are dragging their heols,
"The boycott was organised on the opening day of the new school term. Picket lines were set up outside some 300 schools and braving batter weather, more than 3,000 parents,tcachers, and pupils took part in amarch, Chanting integration slogans such as: “end Jim Crow in our schools", one hundred domonstrators picketted State Governor Nelson Rockefeller's office and another 900 picketted the city hall. Leaders of the movement warned that unless school segregation were speedily ended the boycott would be repwated. Although the demonstration was completely peaceful, 2,000 extra police were on duty and another 6,000 were “standing by."