Page 12-Friday, July 21, 1978-The Michigan Daily
SAY THEY FEAR WHITE THREATS
Black Boston high schoolers walk out
CONCORD, Mass. (AP) - Thirty-six
black students from Boston have quit
the high school they were bused to in
this historic suburb, claiming that
white students have threatened them.
Some of the whites boasted of Ku Klux
Klan connections in their yearbook
biographies.
"These kids are afraid to go to the
bathroom alone," said Jean McGuire,
executive director of the organization
that operates the busing.
THE BLACK students were bused 19
miles every school day under the area's
voluntary school busing program,
which was designed to promote in-
tegrated education, authorities said
yesterday. Several other local blacks
will remain in the school this fall.
. Those from Boston who chose to quit
are the first to withdraw en masse from
a suburban school in the 12 years of the
program.
"The climate's not conducive to lear-
ning if you've got to look behind you all
the time," said Carolyn Jackman, a
liaison officer for the Metropolitan
Council for Educational Opportunity,
which operates the busing and is known
as Metco.
UNDER THE program, nearly 3,000
Boston minority students are bused to
mostly white schools in the suburbs.
The students and their parents voted
last week to quit after a fight between
whites and blacks at the Concord-
Carlisle Regional High School the final
day of classes June 28. Black students
claimed the fight was prompted by
racial threats from white students.
A carload of whites allegedly trailed
the blacks' bus after the fight,
threatening, "Okay, you niggers, we'll
get you next September," said Betty
Roylston, a black Boston school teacher
whose son Brian goes to school here.
She said Brian, a 15-year-old freshman,
was knocked down in the fight. She
voted to withdraw the children.
POLICE BROKE up the fight and
arrested a white graduating senior,
Michael Flynn, 18, of Concord, said
assistant principal Frank Krypel.
Flynn was fined for trespassing, he
said.
Krypel said Flynn was one of six
students who identified themselves
with the Ku Klux Klan in the yearbook,
"Bridge '78," a name referring to North
Bridge, where the Minutement fought
the British on April 19, 1775. The school
is two miles from the bridge.
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