3.+National+Boycott+Day

National Boycott Day

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//National Boycott day was an event that occurred in South Boston on October 4th. It was mostly remembered by the hundreds of thousands of students who boycotted their schools. Students who began to start fights and riots began to be suspended at alarming rates. This process happened multiple times until they decided to name it National Boycott Day of South Boston. The purpose of this is to show the extreme amount of violence that was occurring in Boston in the mid 70's. Fights broke out between enemies daily and therefore something had to be done. The fights lead young boys to be severely physically damaged for a long period of time. This violence shows how much animosity was between "friends" and "enemies" of people that showed people all over the United States that there was something wrong with the Irish and how the mob connected with the Boston teenagers for the time being.//

//"Education: A New Idea On".// TIME Magazine. //TIME Mag., 10 Nov. 1975. WEB. 10 Jan. 2013.//

//Cronin, Joseph M.// Reforming Boston Schools: 1930-2006 : Overcoming Corruption and Racial Segregation//. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.// Google Books//. Web. 27 Mar. 2012.

=Audience: Marco=

The National Boycott Day was a day where the members of the community in Southie held a parade and refused to send the youth to school. Because the youth were the subjects of the day, they were also the focus. It helped inform the youth about their culture, and also gave them insight on which side it was socially acceptable to be on. However, since the audience was so young and so impressionable, it was easy for them to get carried away. In an excerpt from the book __All Souls: A Family Story from Southie__, the author describes a situation in which a riot broke out on National Boycott Day, and the entire Southie community engaged the police in a battle in the streets. He noted that he and his friends, along with many other teenagers, were participating; he even saw a four year old girl. He also noted that to go to school on National Boycott Day would mean facing the threat of castration.

The youth were definitely the target audience of National Boycott Day, not only because they were the ones directly affected by the restrictions of the day (missing school), but because they were also more susceptible to feeling very proud just because of their surroundings. It was a day when they learned about their culture.

Works Cited

MacDonald, Michael P. "Fight the Power." //All Souls: A Family Story from Southie//. Boston: Beacon, 1999. 86-92. Print.

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4. Historical Explanation
During a time of heightened tension between the southern schools, the National Boycott Day created a lasting historical impact on the people of South Boston. Just a few decades after the segregation of schools in the South, African Americans, with the help of the NAACP, pushed to improve the lives of their children's education, claiming that the "school committee has consciously maintained two separate schools" ("School Desegregation..."). In an attempt to change that, residents throughout South Boston filed their complaints to the Boston School Committee. The effort resulted in a ruling in their favor and ordered for schools to be integrated by city-wide busing. The anticipation of Boston residents were met with trouble when white residents sought to overturn the decision. In September, "buses carrying black students are met by white crowds in South Boston, yelling slurs and threatening violence" ("School Desegregation..."). The boycott was intensified when white parents began pulling their children from the school. As a result, violence persisted both inside and outside the schools of Southern Boston. After the National Boycott Day, it became clear that according to the previous ruling of the Brown v. Board of Education, "In a field of public education, the doctrine of separate but equal has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" ("The Freedom..."). With this precedent in place, the importance of National Boycott Day became evident; it was a sign that things needed to be changed. Historically, the boycott encourage a new mindset in African Americans. Discouraged by the public school system and fueled by the Civil Rights Movements, Boston's residents worked together to "monitor court proceedings and participated and enveloping policy to foster quality integrated education for Boston's school children" ("The Freedom..."). The combined efforts of the community and the NAACP, set the foundation for many generations to come. They proved that through strong work and speaking up, it was possible to create a change in what would appear to be an unthinkable goal. The National Boycott Day served to shape 1974 South Boston and undoubtedly has lent a hand to shaping it today.

5. Works Cited
"The Freedom House: A Legacy Preserved". //Northern Eastern University Libraries//. Boston: Northeastern Universities Libraries, 2003. Web. 8 January 2013. Link

"School Desegregation in Boston 1974". //American Experience//. 23 October 2006. PBS Online, 2006. Web. 7 January 2013. Link

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