Word: eisenstadt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monday by electing a chairman whom Mrs. Hicks had bitterly opposed. Mrs. Hicks who is reportedly planning to enter Boston's mayoralty race this year -- had chosen not to succeed herself and supported Committeeman Joseph Lee for chairman. But Lee lost, 3-2, to 29-year-old Thomas S. Eisenstadt...
...However, Eisenstadt had been as closely linked as the other members of the Committee with Mrs. Hicks' refusal to attack the problem of de facto. Last August, for example, it was his motion that prevented the transfer of more than 500 Negro children from overcrowded Roxbury schools...
...late August, Committeeman Thomas Eisenstadt ignited the racial issue by attempting to block the busing of 583 children out of over-crowded Roxbury schools, a plan proposed by the Superintendent. Eisenstadt's motion passed, with Gartland and Thomas Lee dissenting. Although nearly a thousand pupils of both races had been bused the year before, for the same reasons, busing suddenly loomed as a dramatic threat of the "neighborhood school...
...successful candidates, only Mrs. Hicks did any campaigning. But she plugged Eisenstadt, Lee, O'Connor, and McDonough whenever she got the chance. She spoke ominously of "busing all over the city," encouraging the casual bigots' fears that their children might someday be bused into Negro neighborhood schools, although law requires that parents give permission before their children can be transported...
...young lawyers, Eisenstadt and McDonough, School Committee seats can provide invaluable contacts. They will be in the public eye and in the swim of Boston politics, an excellent opportunity to extend their professional reach. The School Committee job probably hasn't done Mrs. Hicks's law practice any harm. Furthermore, the School Committee provides one access route to the City Council, which is a traditional source of Boston mayors...