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What a “Fizzle!”
Date: Feb 8, 1964
Caption: The Amsterdam News published this editorial a few days after the February 3 boycott.
Here a black newspaper, the Amsterdam News, reflects on how others spoke about the February 3 boycott both before and after it happened. They comment on how a white newspaper, the New York Herald Tribune, had covered the boycott. Other white newspapers, including The New York Times, had been very critical of the boycott before it happened.
Categories: K-12 organizing, parent activism, student activism, community activism
This item is part of "Responding to the 1964 Boycotts" in "Boycotting New York’s Segregated Schools"
Item Details
Date: Feb 8, 1964
Creator: New York Amsterdam News Editorial Board
Source: New York Amsterdam News Editorial Board
Copyright: Under copyright. Used with permission.
How to cite: “What a ‘Fizzle!’” New York Amsterdam News Editorial Board, in New York City Civil Rights History Project, Accessed: [Month Day, Year], https://nyccivilrightshistory.org/gallery/what-a-fizzle.
Questions to Consider
- How did the Board of Education describe the boycott? How do you think boycotting students and organizers felt when they heard this?
- How do you think the editors of the Amsterdam News felt about the boycott? What evidence do you see in the text?
- What did the editors want to happen next?
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