News
Progressive Labor Party Organizes Solidarity March With Harvard Yard Encampment
News
Encampment Protesters Briefly Raise 3 Palestinian Flags Over Harvard Yard
News
Mayor Wu Cancels Harvard Event After Affinity Groups Withdraw Over Emerson Encampment Police Response
News
Harvard Yard To Remain Indefinitely Closed Amid Encampment
News
HUPD Chief Says Harvard Yard Encampment is Peaceful, Defends Students’ Right to Protest
Arthur J. Gartland '36, the only Boston School Committee incumbent supported by civil rights leaders, was defeated yesterday in his bid for re-election to a third term.
Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, chairman of the committee and a consistent opponent of busing to end racial imbalance in Boston schools, drew away from the other nine candidates for the five spots on the committee.
Thomas S. Eisenstadt. Joseph Lee Jr., and William E. O'Connor, three incumbents who have agreed with Mrs. Hicks on most racial issues, ran behind her in the early balloting but ahead of the five-man Citizens for Boston Schools slat-supported by civil rights leaders.
In the race for the fifth place, John J. McDonough, who had been supported by Mrs. Hicks, took a substantial early lead over Gartland. Gartland had run fifth and McDonough ninth in the September primary.
Roxbury social worker Melvin King, the only Negro in the race, was running well behind Gartland, and other Citizens for Boston Schools candidates brought up the rear.
Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.