Restore Our Alienated Rights

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Restore Our Alienated Rights (ROAR) was an anti-desegregation busing organization formed in Boston, Massachusetts by Louise Day Hicks in about 1974.[1]

Founding

ROAR was originally organized by Louise Day Hicks as the "Save Boston Committee. [2] The committee was organized to oppose the Racial Imbalance Act and first met in February 1974. Thomas O' Connell, a father from the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston was appointed its first chair. On April 3, 1974, the committee organized a 20,000 person march from Boston City Hall Plaza to the State House. By June of 1974, the committee had changed its name to ROAR. [3]

Purpose

The group's purpose was to fight off U.S. Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity's court order requiring the city of Boston to implement desegregation busing — an order intended to eliminate de facto racial segregation in its public schools. To supporters, ROAR's purpose was its namesake; i.e., to protect the "vanishing rights" of white citizens. To its many opponents, however, ROAR was a symbol of mass racism coalesced into a single organization. ROAR was composed primarily of women, and its leaders argued that "the issue of forced busing is a women's issue."[4]

Notable Members

See also

Further Reading

References

  1. ↑ Guide to the Louise Day Hicks records
  2. ↑ Jeanne Theoharis; Komozi Woodard (1 January 2005). Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America. NYU Press. pp. 33–. ISBN 978-0-8147-8285-9.
  3. ↑ http://www.wsc.mass.edu/mhj/pdfs/militant%20mothers.pdf
  4. ↑ http://www.wsc.mass.edu/mhj/pdfs/militant%20mothers.pdf
  5. ↑ http://www.wsc.mass.edu/mhj/pdfs/militant%20mothers.pdf
  6. ↑ Toledo Blade, January 5, 1976, https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gApPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SgIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7301%2C1604935
  7. ↑ Eugene Eugene Register-Guard - Nov 7, 1974, https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_aNVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NeADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6988%2C1700025
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