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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
Tobin Elementary School, '76
Interviews with students and teachers at the Tobin, roughly two years after the beginning of forced busing.
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…
Roxbury High, '76
Two students are interviewed outside of Roxbury High School, 1976
Photo of Louise Day Hicks
Louise Day Hicks at anti-busing rally in Thomas Park, South Boston
Letter from a 5th grade student
A letter to Mayor Kevin H. White from a 5th grade student who is against busing and believes that students should be able to attend neighborhood schools.
Letter from a college student
A letter to Mayor Kevin White from a college student in Boston who is against busing and is relieved that he attended grade school in New York City
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
Correspondence from Reading, Massachusetts
Correspondence between Mayor Kevin White and a high school student in Reading, Massachusetts who is against busing.
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