Louise Day Hicks
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Louise Day Hicks
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Louise Day Hicks was a member of the Boston City Council, ROAR (Restore Our Alienated Rights), and, at times, the Boston school board. As someone who was strongly against busing and school integration, Hicks became the face of the anti-busing movement in the United States
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Photo of Louise Day Hicks Reading Letters
School Committee Chairman Louise Day Hicks displays letters and telegrams she has received in relation to her stand on school segregation issue
Louise Day Hicks Interview
Television host Tom Larson interviews Louise Day Hicks for an episode of “The Tom Larson Show.” The topics discussed include busing, her 1972 congressional campaign against Moakley, post-congressional plans, Watergate scandal, educational policy, and…
Letter from Louise Day Hicks, August '75
Letter from Louise Day Hicks to John Joseph Moakley regarding an anti-busing Wall Street Journal article by Michael Novak, 4 August 1975
Letter from Louise Day Hicks, December '75
Letter from Louise Day Hicks to John Joseph Moakley regarding busing and South Boston High receivership; includes news clipping from the Quincy Patriot Ledger "Southie Order Called Illegal", 19 December 1975
Louise Day Hicks Files Bill
Louise Day Hicks enters office, files bill to repeal racial imbalance with man, leaves office.
Racial Imbalance Hearing
Albert "Dapper" O'Neil, Kevin White, Joseph Timilty, Louise Day Hicks speak at the racial imbalance hearing held by the Massachusetts legislature. B-roll of audience, closeups on some anti-busing buttons and armbands. Silent footage of Royal Bolling…
Hicks Campaign Flyer
A campaign poster for Louise Day Hicks for her run at a United States Congress seat, 1970
Letter From Hicks to Garrity
A letter from Louise Day Hicks, the President of the Boston City Council, to Judge W. Arthur Garrity relating Moody's Investment Service's lowering of Boston's credit rating to Phase II of the Court's busing and desegregation plan.
Boston City Council Resolution
A Boston City Council resolution, adopted on December 15, 1975, and proposed by Louise Day Hicks, condemning Judge Garrity's decision to place South Boston High School under receivership.