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Wilkinsburg
Students Refuse Lunches and Protest.
Over
300 students from the small, mostly black Wilkinsburg
high school refused to partake of lunch.
Instead
the students gathered outside the school on Wallace
Avenue carrying signs, wearing ribbons and stating their
discontent with both the education at the school and
their outrage in the Gammage case.
Students
explained that with a curriculum at the high school that
has cut business courses, fallen behind in mathematics
and English and not taken advantage of the new computer
lab that students are being subjected if not trained to
fail and inevitably be subject to the discrimination and
mistreatment commonly displayed to them by police.
The
students were vocal in indicating that they wanted to
succeed and that the Gammage incident just brought the
issue of police abuse to light.
Wilkinsburg
high school's Vice-President Priscilla Jones said that
she was "proud of our students" and added that
it is time for students to start forming ideas about the
world around them.
NAACP Calls
for Reunion
The
Pittsburgh National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People scheduled a gathering to address what it
considers racial strife in the wake of the Jonny Gammage
case.
Billed
as a "black and white reunion" by the NAACP the
event will take place on Saturday November 23, 1996, from
11:30PM- 1:30PM at the Downtown YWCA located at 305 Grant
Street in Downtown Pittsburgh.
Assistant
General Counsel Willie Abrams of the NAACP is
scheduled to visit Pittsburgh to review the situation and
speak with the District Attorneys Office about their
handling of the case and strategies in the upcoming trial
of two officers involved in the death of Jonny Gammage.
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