Boston School Department Sit-In is held.

Led by Thomas Atkins, the demonstration involves a dozen, young, well-dressed members of the Boston Branch NAACP, who sit down in the second floor hallway outside the offices of the Boston School Committee at 15 Beacon Street and refuse to move. The purpose of the demonstration is to protest the committee’s refusal to address complaints about discrimination and segregation in the schools. The sit-in ends the next evening after a regularly-scheduled committee meeting, attended by a capacity crowd that includes older, longtime leaders of the African-American community, when police clear the building after a bomb threat is received.