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• 15 November 1963 – A Christian meeting, unique in Boston's history, took place last Friday, November 8, on Boston's Beacon Hill. Almost 300 white priests, ministers, and students march in silence in front of Boston City Hall, the School Committee building, and the State House “to confess the responsibility of the white participants for de facto segregation in schools.” Among the marchers are several BC faculty members and students. (Arthur Lothrop, "Faculty Members Take Part In Penitential Procession," The Heights)
• 19 March 1965 – On March 16 at 10:45 p.m. seven Boston College students – Mark Grey, Paul Dimond, Brian Gaynor, Dick Minisce, Jerry O'Malley, Mike Syzpak and Tom Schmidt – left by bus for Montgomery, Alabama, where they hoped to demonstrate peacefully on behalf of the Southern Christian Leaders Conference (SCLC), headed by Dr. Martin Luther King. The march from Selma to Montgomery occurred on March 7th was nicknamed “Bloody Sunday” because of the brutality that Alabama State troopers used against the peaceful demonstrators. ("Pair Of BC Contingents Now Marching In Selma," The Heights)
• 27 October 1967 - A dozen Boston College students will be speaking in high schools across the country this semester, explaining some of the complex causes and some of the more complex solutions for the nation’s racial violence. In a program called “Alternative,” students provide just that—“an alternative to the mentality that can support an anti-riot bill, but leave the real causes of the riots virtually untouched," explained James Scannell (A&S, '69). Students tour the country speaking to high school students in cities that witnessed racial violence—Hartford, New York, Newark, Chicago, Cleveland. Scannell as well as Anita Menfi (Nursing '68), Gerry Fiesinger (CBA, '68), Michael Mastronardi (A&S, '68), Michael Barton (A&S, '69), and Ken Phalan (A&S, '68) were among the 12 students. ("BC students tour country in effort to explain racial violence," The Heights)