Boston: Defend Busing—Stop the Racist Terror!

[Madison, Wisconsin]: Spartacus Youth League, 1974. A flyer advertising an October 30, 1974 forum at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Memorial Union, organized by the Spartacus Youth League in response to the violent white resistance to school desegregation in Boston. The forum followed the implementation of federally ordered school busing in September 1974, when black students entering previously segregated schools encountered organized demonstrations, harassment, and physical attacks.

The Spartacus Youth League, the youth organization of the Trotskyist Spartacist League, advocated militant opposition to the anti-busing movement and called for mass mobilization by labor unions and black community organizations to defend schoolchildren and support desegregation. The flyer reproduces the organization's September 22 statement, urging the creation of a broad movement against racist violence, and includes a halftone UPI photograph of demonstrators gathering on Boston Common following a march through Roxbury.

Mimeographed on one side of a 8 ½” x 14" sheet. Vertical crease from folding, contemporary handwritten notation, owner's name (J. Wesley Miller) illegibly scrawled to verso. Item #15547

Price: $75.00