The 1967 Philadelphia School Board Public Demonstration was similar to the Chicago Public School Board Demonstration and the subsequent police riot which took place on November 17, 1967 in Philadelphia, was just one in a series of marches organized in various cities across the United States with the assistance of the Student NonViolent Committee (SNCC). Numerous small segregationist, separatist, White Nationalist groups had demonstrated at the Philadelphia School Board regularly in opposition to integration of the schools.