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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...
...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...
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...