CAP offers critical support for Boston busing march: 1974
The Congress of Afrikan People (CAP) issues a flyer offering critical support to a march against racism in Boston, Massachusetts at the height of the Boston busing crisis where thousands of white parents and students fought against integration of schools in that city in 1974-75.
CAP called for upholding the right of all students to attend any school, but called the focus misplaced and instead put forth the demand of a decent education for all students, black and white.
CAP was a Black Marxist-Leninist organization headed by renowned poet Amiri Baraka. It eventually became the League of Revolutionary Struggle and later many of its member joined the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
The march:
The Emergency Committee for a National Mobilization Against Racism issued a call to march in Boston Dec. 14, 1974 after white mobs hurled racial epithets and attacked school buses carrying black children at the South Boston High School.
Four buses left Washington, D.C. carrying about 180 people while dozens more made the drive up the east coast to join an estimated 15,000 demonstrators who ranged from pacifists to Marxist poet Amiri Baraka.
Comedian and activist Dick Gregory told the crowd, “Let’s not fool ourselves, the schools in South Boston are just as bad as the schools in Roxbury. What we really want is an end to bad schooling.”
White supremacists used the busing issue to further their political careers, including Boston City Councilmember Louise Day Hicks. Locally Prince George’s County anti-busing leader Sue V. Mills used the issue to launch her long political career as a county councilmember.
For a PDF of this two-sided, 8 ½ x 14 statement by the Congress of Afrikan People, see washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1975-C...
For a PDF of a two-sided flyer of the March Against Racism in Boston in 1974, see washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/1974-12-14-bo...
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskquzhMu
Donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson
CAP offers critical support for Boston busing march: 1974
The Congress of Afrikan People (CAP) issues a flyer offering critical support to a march against racism in Boston, Massachusetts at the height of the Boston busing crisis where thousands of white parents and students fought against integration of schools in that city in 1974-75.
CAP called for upholding the right of all students to attend any school, but called the focus misplaced and instead put forth the demand of a decent education for all students, black and white.
CAP was a Black Marxist-Leninist organization headed by renowned poet Amiri Baraka. It eventually became the League of Revolutionary Struggle and later many of its member joined the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
The march:
The Emergency Committee for a National Mobilization Against Racism issued a call to march in Boston Dec. 14, 1974 after white mobs hurled racial epithets and attacked school buses carrying black children at the South Boston High School.
Four buses left Washington, D.C. carrying about 180 people while dozens more made the drive up the east coast to join an estimated 15,000 demonstrators who ranged from pacifists to Marxist poet Amiri Baraka.
Comedian and activist Dick Gregory told the crowd, “Let’s not fool ourselves, the schools in South Boston are just as bad as the schools in Roxbury. What we really want is an end to bad schooling.”
White supremacists used the busing issue to further their political careers, including Boston City Councilmember Louise Day Hicks. Locally Prince George’s County anti-busing leader Sue V. Mills used the issue to launch her long political career as a county councilmember.
For a PDF of this two-sided, 8 ½ x 14 statement by the Congress of Afrikan People, see washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1975-C...
For a PDF of a two-sided flyer of the March Against Racism in Boston in 1974, see washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/1974-12-14-bo...
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskquzhMu
Donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson