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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...
...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...
...leaders have began a drive to register an estimated 15,000 who are eligible to vote, it 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...
Atkins urged registered voters to vote Tuesday against "those who oppose the NAACP." He announced that a voter registration campaign will be conducted to register the 15,000 unregistered voters in Roxbury in time for the November elections...
Yesterday, Epps told the crowd that "no one can say any longer that the NAACP is without support...