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Boston elected Mrs. Hicks to preserve the neighborhood school," which is a polite way of saying de facto segregation. She carried 15 of the city's 22 wards, and of the seven intransigent yards, five are predominantly Negro. In another, Mrs. Hicks missed first place by only five votes...
Gartland is no flaming radical. He is an insurance broker, Irish and Roman Catholic, born and raised in Boston. He admits privately that de facto segregation never bothered him until the school boycott of 1963, when he was already serving on the school committee. His concern first manifested itself when, as a minority of one, he proposed that the school committee discuss the boycott leaders' grievances. After the second school boycott in February, 1964, Gartland finally succeeded in mustering the two additional votes necessary to bring about a meeting. Gartland finally succeeded in mustering the two additional votes necessary...
Last winter the Kiernan report, compiled by a distinguished committee of educators, public officials, and clerics, came out against racial imbalance. The report bluntly stated that de facto segregated schools erode the motivation and self-respect of Negro children, often lead to inferior facilities for Negroes, and encourage prejudice in both races...
...court that has been fiercely attacked as too civil-libertarian in everything from criminal cases to de facto school segregation, the arguments had a troublesome ring. Section 26 might indeed involve state action, but "the question is," mused Chief Justice Roger Traynor, "what's so wrong, about that action?" Traynor seemed to be looking to the difficult decision ahead as well as the involved arguments that he had just heard when he finally ended the debate with a sigh: "I don't know how you feel, Counsel, but I'm awfully tired...
Only Arthur Gartland among the incumbents has stuck out his neck in favor of innovation. He has voted for the Roxbury site for Boston English, he has voted to recognize the problem of de facto segregation, he has voted to set immediate plans in motion for complying with the state Racial Imbalance Bill. He is joined on these issues by his four fellow candidates of the Citizens for Boston Schools: Melvin King, Velia Dicesare, John F. X. Gaquin, and George H. Parker, King, a Negro and a Roxbury social worker, would at long last give ghetto residents a voice...