the Chicago Board of Education offices. Chicago police kept protesters from entering the building. While Freedom Day was popular and widely covered, it did not have significant impact in changing the policies of Superintendent Willis. This de facto school segregation was supported by the Mayor Richard J. Daley, who went on to nominate two school board members who did not support the CCCO's push for integration. Ultimately, CPS was not moved to integrate after Freedom Day, despite the best efforts of Black activists and the CCCO. Use of Willis Wagons prevailed, and Willis himself did not retire until 1966 (albeit four months before the end of his term). However, the size of the first Freedom Day protest inspired subsequent boycotts in Chicago and the United States. The Freedom Day protest inspired Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s move to Chicago in 1966. Before Freedom Day, in August, 1963, then-college student Bernie Sanders was arrested while protesting the policies of Superintendent Willis. References External links Chicago History Museum, Facing Freedom in America, "School Boycott" (Image collection) 63 Boycott (Documentary) Morning Shift: Fifty years after the 1963 school boycott, where are we on reform? Civil rights protests in the United States Student protests in the United States Student strikes Chicago Public Schools History of Chicago Protest marches October 1963 events in the United States 1963 protests