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...
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