A Negro Boycott to Integrate Boston Schools

ONCE a year school examiners used to visit all the Boston public schools, both white and Negro, awarding honors to those who passed their examinations most acceptably. At the Negro school on Beacon Hill in 1829 the examiners awarded honors to several of the scholars, among them a slight, serious boy, William C. Nell. Afterwards, when the mayor invited all the white honors winners from the Boston schools to a dinner