Chester school protests (original) (raw)

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The Chester school protests were a series of demonstrations that occurred from November 1963 through April 1964 in Chester, Pennsylvania. The demonstrations focused on ending the de facto segregation that resulted in the racial categorization of Chester public schools, even after the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka (1954). The racial unrest and civil rights protests were led by Stanley Branche of the Committee for Freedom Now (CFFN) and George Raymond of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons (NAACP). In April 1964, a series of almost nightly protests brought chaos to Chester. The city deputized firemen and trash collectors to help handle demonstrators and the State of Pennsylvania deployed 50 state troopers to assist the 77-member Chester police force. The demonstrations were marked by violence and police brutality which led to Chester being dubbed the "Birmingham of the North" by James Farmer. Over 600 people were arrested over a two-month period of civil rights rallies, marches, pickets, boycotts and sit-ins. National civil rights leaders such as Dick Gregory, Gloria Richardson and Malcolm X came to Chester in support of the demonstrations. Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton convinced protestors to obey a court-ordered moratorium on demonstrations by forming the Pennsylvania Human Relations Committee to hold hearings on school desegregation. The protests resulted in the Pennsylvania Human Relations Committee determination that the Chester School Board had violated the law and the Chester School District was ordered to desegregate the city's six predominantly African-American schools. The city appealed the ruling, which delayed implementation, however the schools were eventually desegregated. (en)

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* Racial segregation of Chester public schools (en)

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CFFN member Stanley Branche (en)
Governor of Pennsylvania William Scranton (en)
Mayor of Chester James Gorbey (en)
NAACP member George Raymond (en)

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the Civil Rights Movement (en)

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*Pennsylvania State Human Relations Commission determined the Chester School Board had broken the law * Chester School Board was ordered to desegregate Chester schools * Formation of the Greater Chester Movement which became a conduit for distribution of funding for President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty (en)

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* Committee for Freedom Now * Congress of Racial Equality * NAACP * Students from: ** Cheyney State College ** Pennsylvania Military College ** Swarthmore College chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (en)
*Chester Parents Association * Chester Police Department * Chester School Board *Pennsylvania State Human Relations Committee *Pennsylvania State Police (en)

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Chester school protests (en)

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The Chester school protests were a series of demonstrations that occurred from November 1963 through April 1964 in Chester, Pennsylvania. The demonstrations focused on ending the de facto segregation that resulted in the racial categorization of Chester public schools, even after the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka (1954). The racial unrest and civil rights protests were led by Stanley Branche of the Committee for Freedom Now (CFFN) and George Raymond of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons (NAACP). (en)

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Chester school protests (en)

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