Amy Greenwell

(Women’s News Co-op) — A state of emergency exists at Cooley High School. Most people who relate to Cooley in any way agree that the situation is very uptight. But it’s not affecting everyone the same way and theories about its causes and solutions vary, depending on who you’re talking to.

Black students have been harassed, beaten up and “excluded” in large numbers for the past two years. In the spring of 1968 and winter of 1969 members of the white racist group Breakthrough beat up black kids at the school but no police action was ever taken. In the fall of 1969 after a clash between black and white kids, some black kids were expelled but white kids were not.

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