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...whether or not Eisenstadt and Lee actually will support NAACP suggestions, "God only knows, and maybe even He doesn't," Pettigrew said...
...testimony will probably not change the opinions of any School Committee members, but might give them a "political excuse" to change their minds, Pettigrew said. He specifically mentioned Eisenstadt and Lee, who are considered the two "borderline" Committeemen. They made possible the letter to the NAACP by joining forces with Gartland earlier this month...
Joseph Lee, Thomas S. Eisenstadt, and Arthur J. Gartland, all of whom supported the motion made by Eisenstadt, declared that the Committee should not prejudge the proposals of the NAACP...
Last Thursday, the School Committee finally started to move. Eisenstadt and Lee for the first time joined Gartland in asking for communication with the boycott organizers. This change in attitude took courage and deserves praise. Hopefully, the Committee will make the change official at its meeting today. The members should not insist, as does Mrs. Hicks, that the boycott be cancelled as a prelude to discussions. Such a demand would oblige the Negro community to surrender its only bargaining advantage and to trust blindly in the good faith of the Committee. The attitude of school authorities over the last half...
King also slipped considerably in Back Bay's fifth ward, another upper-income community in which he did well two years ago. In Mattapan, with a large Jewish population, King ran behind Eisenstadt, Hicks, and Lee, though, as one NAACP official put it, there had been much "pre-election talk about the sympathetic Jewish vote for the Negroes...