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Stay Out For Freedom; Live Broadcast; Live Broadcast [3 of 4]

Part of From the Vault. Part of Boston’s 1960s Civil Rights Movement: A Look Back.

02/26/1964

In 1964, despite a year of sustained efforts by the NAACP, parents, and other civil rights activists, the Boston Public Schools remained racially segregated. Citizens for Human Rights (CHR), the group that organized the Boston’s successful 1963 Stay Out for Freedom, led by Reverend James Breeden and Noel Day, evolved into the Massachusetts Freedom Movement (MFM). MFM organized another Stay Out campaign for February 26, 1964; over 10,000 children attended the MFM Freedom Schools in 35 locations throughout Boston. The 1964 Stay Out, however, was also part of an emerging a national school boycott movement against segregated schools in the North that included similar demonstrations in New York, Chicago, Cleveland, and Milwaukee. The WGBH-FM program, 1964 Stay Out for Freedom- Live Broadcast, is a recording of the afternoon activities at the Freedom School located at the St. Mark’s Social Center, directed by Principal, Betty Richardson. The program continues broadcasting one of the actual Student Discussion Groups, moderated by Peggy Dammond Day, Director of Curriculum Development for the Freedom Schools and Alan Gartner, Director of the Boston Chapter of CORE. The group includes high school students from the City of Boston and suburban towns. This segment offered WGBH-FM listeners an opportunity to hear the students, both Black and White, discuss their ideas regarding issues of de facto segregation, class, gender, discrimination in housing, the lack of employment and higher education opportunities; and methods of social change, from their own perspective. In the next segment, WGBH reports on school absenteeism data provided by the School Committee, along with Superintendent William Ohrenberger’s comments on the Stay Out. Summary and select metadata for this record was submitted by Audrea Dunham. Morning session. Portions of these recordings of the morning and afternoon sessions of Stay Out For Freedom were removed by LED and used in the following programs: Freedom Stay-Out: What Happened This Morning Freedom Stay-Out: What Happened This Afternoon Freedom Stay-Out: What Happens Next?


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Series
Stay Out For Freedom
Program
Live Broadcast
Title

Live Broadcast [3 of 4]

Series Description

Radio series. Series release date: 1963

Program Description

Radio

Duration

00:18:52

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Audio

Subjects
Politics-Electoral Politics
Stay Out for Freedom Day
Boston, Massachusetts
Politics-Voter Registration and Education
Roxbury, Massachusetts
Freedom Schools
Race Relations-De facto Segregation
Politics-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People/Boston School Committee Negotiations
Civil Rights Era
Topics
Social Issues
Contributors
Day, Peggy Dammond (Speaker)
Mascott, Ted (Producer)
Lee, Rick (Reporter)
Gartner, Alan (Speaker)
Citation
Chicago: “Stay Out For Freedom; Live Broadcast; Live Broadcast [3 of 4],” 02/26/1964, GBH Archives, accessed March 29, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/A_BC03581459DA446D8BFF01659122BFD2.
MLA: “Stay Out For Freedom; Live Broadcast; Live Broadcast [3 of 4].” 02/26/1964. GBH Archives. Web. March 29, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/A_BC03581459DA446D8BFF01659122BFD2>.
APA: Stay Out For Freedom; Live Broadcast; Live Broadcast [3 of 4]. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/A_BC03581459DA446D8BFF01659122BFD2
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