The Jewish Center of Malverne, Long Island, provided classroom space and facilities today for 79 Negro pupils as part of an emergency “Freedom School” organized by Negro parents boycotting the local public school to force the school board to end racial imbalance.
The freedom school initially was set up in a church in Garden City and then was expanded to include the Guild Hall of the St. Thomas Episcopal church and the Jewish Center. The 79 pupils and four Negro teachers were attending five classrooms in the Center. The 250 children attending the freedom school had been assigned to the Wood-field Road School which is about 80 per cent Negro. The United Synagogue of America, parent body of Conservative congregations, congratulated the Malverne Center for its action.
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