4. ON 7 NOVEMBER 1967
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ENTERED THE SCHOOL DEMANDING
TO DE ALLOWED TO RETURN TO CLASS. THIRTEEN OTHER GIRLS RALLIED TO
HER SIDE AND OPSTRUCTED AND UPBRAIDED THE HEADMISTRESS AND OTHER
TEACHERS. THE POLICE VERE CALLED IN.
10 WERE ARRESTED,
AND THIRTEEN OTHER GIRLS AGED BETWEEN 16 AND
WAS CHARGED WITH TRESPASSING
AND THE OTHERS WITH CPSTRUCTING THE POLICE. WHILE ON REMAND THE
CIRLS SENT LETTERS TO BCLILIOS PUPILS VILIFYING THE HEADNI STRESS
AND INCITING REBELLION. DURING THE COURT HEARING THERE WAS MUCH
MYSTERICAL SCREAMING, ABUSIVE LANGUAGE AND THE CHANTING OF
POLITICAL SLOGANS DESPITE EFFORTS OF SOME CONTRITE PARENTS TO
GUNDUE THE GIRLS, ALL 14 VERE SENTENCED TO 100 DOLLAR FINES OR ONE
GONTHO IMPRISONMENT. SIX, INCLUDING
EITHER PAID
THEIR FINES OR HAD THEIR FINES PAID FOR THEM DY THEIR PARENTS WHILE
KICHT CHOSE A PRISON SENTENCE AS AN ACT OF MARTYRDON, SOME OF THE
14 GIRLS HAVE SINCE REQUESTED ASSISTANCE IN FINDING SCHOOL PLACES
AND IT HAS SEEN POSSIBLE TO ENTER ONE IN ANOTHER SCHOOL
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