1972 SPECIAL REPORT: "CANARSIE BUSING PROTEST"

A communitywide parents' boycott kept more than 9,000 Canarsie pupils out of classes and forced six schools to close yesterday as 29 black and Puerto Rican children from Brownsville, guarded by 200 riot‐equipped policemen, again attended John Wilson Junior High School 211 in Brooklyn. As the Brownsville children marched into the embattled Canarsie junior high school, the large police detail kept 1,500 jeering and booing white demonstrators behind barricades set up away from the school's front entrance. There were no disorders, such as those that occurred Friday when the 29 pupils first entered the school and the police had to repulse demonstrators who broke through the barricades. nsults Are Exchanged Minutes before the Brownsville pupils arrived, by chartered bus from the Tilden Houses project, where they live, City Councilman at Large Monroe Cohen served a court order on School Chancellor Harvey B. Scribner, seeking to block the admission of the youngsters. But Dr. Scribner, after conferring with the city's Corporation Counsel, allowed the youngsters to enter the school and later the temporary restraining order was vacated by the Appellate Division. During the height of the morning demonstration, Paul D. Horowitz, the chairman of Brooklyn's Community Planning Board 18, suffered an apparent heart attack and was pronounced dead on arrival at Brookdale Hospital. Mr. Horowitz, who was 49 years old, collapsed while standing with other protesters on the steps of a private house surveying the schooliscene. During the day, whites and blacks outside the school exchanged taunts, insults and obscenities across the barricades, with the whites seeming to hurl the stronger epithets, such as, “You ain't, people—you're animals” and “Go back on the boat to Africa.” However, other whites frequently admonished them for their outbursts and language. Details of policemen and a flying squad of nearly a dozen police cars were kept busy during the afternoon racing through the neighborhood to keep apart and disperse roaming bands of white and black youths who appeared ready to clash. #BROOKYLN #CANARSIE #BLACKHISTORY