Word: gartland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inte have antagonized many white Bostonians and have made opposition to the NAACP electorally profitable for School Committee candidates, those tactics do not detract from the inherent injustice of de facto segregation. The first step toward ending the in the Boston schools would be the of Arthur Gartland and the election of Melvin King to the School Committee at the general election...
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...
Melvin H. King, a Negro social worker who finished seventh in the election two years ago, tallied 25,239 votes to place seventh in the primary. He is strongly supported, unofficially, by the NAACP and was endorsed along with Gartland and two others by the Citizens for Boston Public Schools...
...Arthur Gartland, the only committeeman to support the charge ran fifth with 30,315 votes. Melvin H. King, a South End-social worker campaigning with strong NAACP support, finished seventh to become one of the ten candidates who will vie for committee seats in November...
...will not bring results in time for today's elections. Mrs. Louise Day Hisks, the committee chairman, is expected to lead the ticket as a result of her firm stand against the NAACP. Since one of the 11 candidates for the school committee must be it may be Arthur Gartland, the only committeeman to acknowledge that do faste segregation exists...