"Black Leadership Coalition on integration of Los Angeles schools"

At a press conference, two members of the Black Leadership Coalition, a group representing organizations, clergy and black elected officials, speak out against racist efforts to prevent full integration of schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The two speakers are John Mack of the Urban League, and Marnesba Tackett of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference West. They express condemnation for the Los Angeles Board of Education and ask parents to oppose the school boycott by not keeping their kids home. They also discuss the opposition to busing the children to different schools located farther away. Legal aspects relating to how both the Court of Appeals, Second District and the California Supreme Court have handled the efforts to block the integration order are also mentioned. Footage includes some silent shots of reporters and the press conference.

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