Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...pressing for the cancellation of the initial invitation, Brewster apparently acted independently of New Haven Mayor Richard C. Lee, Lee sent Wallace a telegram last Thursday telling the governor he was "officially unwelcome" in New Haven...
Brewster claimed to have warned the YPU before he knew that Mayor Richard Lee of New Haven officially rebuffed Wallace. Hence if Brewster did receive threats of violence, it is astonishing that he did not feel he could rely on the City of New Haven to vitiate them...
...hours earlier, the city's mayor, Richard C. Lee, had sent Wallace a telegram saying he would be "officially un-welcome" there and informing him that he had asked Yale officials to have the invitation cancelled...
Wallace, in reply, accused Lee of acting out of political motives but offered him complete freedom of speech if he ever came to Alabama...