Boycotts (Contd.)

In two big Northern cities last week, Negroes used second-round boycotts to fight de facto school segregation:

> In Boston (total enrollment: 93,000), which had a small boycott last June, a far bigger one-day demonstration this time pulled out well over half the city's Negro pupils -- 9,000, plus 2,000 sympathetic whites (all beyond normal absences of about 9,000). Result: city and state officials agreed to talk integration.

> In Chicago (463,516 pupils), which had a huge boycott last fall, a smaller one-day walkout this time faced seem ingly fatal opposition from Negro politicians and the Urban League. Nonetheless, boycott leaders mustered 126,350 pupils (beyond normal absences of 46,000). The numerical success suggested that Chicago's political leaders cannot much longer ignore the issue.

In New York City, the Rev. Milton A. Galamison, who recently led a vast boycott, announced a second boycott for March 16, despite defections by the top national Negro organizations. Moreover, he set the date for a third "demonstration" -- April 22, the day the World's Fair opens.

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