Final estimates had more than 200,000 students skipping classes. At the same time, police estimated 8,000 to 10,000 protesters marched on City Hall and the Board of Education offices.
Although civil rights leaders including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. supported the designation of Oct. 22, 1963, as “Freedom Day,” its success was not guaranteed. Older Black organizations and clergy didn’t relish asking parents to back a one-day school boycott to demonstrate that segregated schools weren’t limited to the South. It was politically dangerous for anyone beholden to the Boss, Mayor Richard J. Daley.
Galler and Landry were members of the Chicago chapter of Friends of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the youthful battalion of the civil rights crusade. The Chicago boycott that Galler and Landry directed was precipitated by Willis’ unexpected resignation on Oct. 4, 1963. He was ticked off at the board, which he feared was secretly considering the demands of the Coordination Council of Community Organizations, a coalition of civil rights groups, and encroaching on his power.
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