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The New York City school boycott, also known as Freedom Day, described by one American author as "the largest civil rights demonstration in the nation's history", [17] began and involved more than 460,000 African-American and Puerto Rican students and 3,500 teachers, who refused to show up at the city's public schools, as a protest against alleged de facto racial segregation.