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Those voters Tuesday clearly endorsed Committee chairman Mrs. Louise Hicks Day and the two Committee members identified most closely with her, Thomas S. Eisenstadt and Joseph Lee, in their refusal to discuss the question of de facto segregation in the school system...
...overwhelming margin by which three Boston School Committee incumbents--all opposed to the NAACP's demand that the Committee recognize the existence of de facto segregation in Boston's public schools--led in the School Committee primary Tuesday indicates that there is a strong under-current of fear and segregationist sentiment among the white population in the Northern cities, at least in Boston...
Arthur J. Gartland, the one School Committee member who has admitted the existence of de facto segregation in the schools, though he says it exists through no fault of the School Committee, placed fifth in the primary. He ran far behind the three leaders, with 30,135 votes...
Whether a political message of national significance can be drawn from the Boston School Committee primary is a difficult question. Boston is not the only city in which de facto segregation is an explosive social and political question: the same situation exists in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and other cities...
...Louise Day Hicks, chairman of the school committee, topped the ballot with 63,103 votes, followed by committeemen Thomas Eisenstadt (62,590), Joseph Lee (62,263), and William O'Connor (42,795). All three have backed Mrs. Hicks in rejecting an NAACP charge of de facto segregation in Boston schools...