At about 3:30 pm on October 22, 1963, march captains from all corners of the city would have been leading thousands of people to the protest downtown. Many of the protestors would have been students, protesting the conditions at their school.
Although the police were ready for a riot, the Boycott was by most accounts completely peaceful and, as Boycott organizer and former CPS teacher Sylvia Fischer told us in 2013, “we just felt the children of Chicago had shown the very best of themselves.”
The clip below also features never-before-seen footage of the Boycott: