Word: gartland
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Only one member of the school committee voiced support of the report. Arthur Gartland declared that "There is racial imbalance in the Boston schools...and it should be redressed...
...indeed reassuring to see Mrs. Hicks so concerned with legal equality for all Boston's citizens. Yet there are obligations more pressing than equal opportunity for prosecution. If the Committee were really devoted to principles of equality, it should not have defeated Arthur J. Gartland's motion directing the group to cooperate with the NAACP in forming a commission to work with the Harvard School of Education to devise a "Boston Plan" for school integration...
Arthur J. Gartland, the only school Committeeman who acknowledges the existence of alleged de facts segregation in Boston, alone doubted that the boycott had violated a State law which makes it illegal for anyone to induce a child to cut school...
...Gartland also stood alone in supporting a motion to cooperate with the Boston branch of the NAACP in the form of a six-man commission to work with the Harvard School of Education on a "Boston plan" for school integration...
...motion, introduced by Gartland and tabled at a special School Committee hearing Feb. 19, was voted down...