Change the Status Crow
After the massive turnout for the February 3, 1964 boycott, there was little response from the Board of Education.
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Puerto Rican Civil Rights March on Film
Concern about school segregation was not only expressed during the school boycott.
J.H.S. 103, P.S. 194, and City Hall
During the February 3, 1964 boycott, there was a rally at City Hall.
The Will and the Way of the Boycotters
On February 3, 1964, an estimated 464,400 students - almost half the city’s enrollment - boycotted New York City’s segregated school system.
What a “Fizzle!”
Here a black newspaper, the Amsterdam News, reflects on how others spoke about the February 3 boycott both before and after it happened.
Freedom Day March on Film
On the day of the February 3 boycott, some participants gathered at the headquarters of the New York City Board of Education at 110 Livingston Street in Brooklyn, where they marched and picketed.
Malcolm X Comments on the Boycotts
The second school boycott took place on March 16, 1964.
School Boycott!
The Citywide Committee for Integrated Schools included several New York City civil rights organizations.
A Boycott Solves Nothing
The New York Times’ editorial board published this editorial a few days before the first 1964 school boycott.
Why the School Boycott?
The flier designed by two Queens civil rights organizing groups - the Congress of Racial Equality and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - calls for a boycott to protest segregation in New York City’s public schools.
Life Magazine Cover
The 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom was an amazing organizing success.
A. Philip Randolph Letter to President John F. Kennedy
The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom sought to push for change in several ways.
White Queens Mothers Protest Desegregation
Five years after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the New York City Board of Education announced a plan to desegregate a few schools in Brooklyn and Queens.
Mae Mallory and her daughter Patricia
During the “Harlem Nine”’s struggle to integrate schools in New York City, multiple newspapers, including The New York Times and Amsterdam News, published photographs of Mae Mallory with her daughter Patricia.
In the matter of Charlene Skipwith, excerpt
On October 28, 1958, in two separate cases, the Board of Education charged the “Harlem Nine” parents with violating the state law requiring parents to send their children to school.
“We’d Rather Go to Jail.”
In 1958, one year after nine Black students made national and international news when they desegregated Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, desegregation activists in Harlem organized their own protest.
Jansen Must Go!
Harlem residents like Ella Baker and Mae Mallory, alongside other parents and community members in Brooklyn and in Jamaica, Queens, pushed the New York City Board of Education to integrate their schools.
Cisco on Trial in Queens
Samuel B. Cisco, a Black man, lived in Jamaica, in Queens County.