School Boycott! Freedom Day February 3, 1964

By Dannie Gore

On Monday, February 3, 1964, about 45 percent of all New York City students stayed out of school in the boycott to protest against school segregation. An estimated 464,361 students and teachers participated overall making the event the largest U.S. civil rights demonstration of the 1960s, nearly twice as big as the March on Washington.