Word: gartland
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...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...
...results of the election suggest that Mrs. Hicks had profited by her opposition to Negroes' demands. When she first ran for School Committee two years ago, she finished with 40,000 votes. Arthur Gartland-the only member of the School Committee who has been willing to consider NAACP demands-ran only 1000 votes behind her then. Last week Mrs. Hicks increased her lead over Gartland; she had 128,000 votes to Gartland...
Committeeman Arthur Gartland fortunately won reelection, although by an undeservedly narrow margin. He will again be the only member of the Committee willing to concede the existence of de facto segregation. If Gartland continues working to make transfer policies more liberal and to improve the quality of education in the predominantly Negro schools in Boston, he ought to receive better treatment from the city's voters in 1965 than he did last week...