NAACP calls for school closures to spur integration on February 27, 1968.

On February 27, 1968, the Seattle chapter of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) advocates closure of Horace Mann, Washington, and Garfield schools to spur integration in the remaining schools.

Sources: Walt Crowley, Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), 252.
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