Talk:Louise Day Hicks

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I cut this phrase from the lead paragraph:

who became a symbol of racial bigotry

I doubt that it's "neutral" to describe someone as a "symbol of racial bigotry". So, let's identify a person or group who labelled her that.

Like, A 1967 editorial in the Boston Globe called Hicks a "symbol of racial bigotry".

Or, black rights groups including the NAACP called felt that Hicks symbolized the racial bigotry of South Boston's white working class

Better yet, put something in the lead paragraph like

who came to national attention for her opposition to forced busing

And explain what her objections were. (I lived in Boston during that time, but I was just a kid so I don't remember her position exactly.) --Uncle Ed 15:28, 31 Oct 2003 (UTC)

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Anonymous wrote:

NOTE: 1.)Life long Boston residents do not refer to their neighborhoods as 'inner city'; 2.) Louise Day Hicks was overshadowed by several other neighborhood anti-forced busing activists; 3.)Louise Day Hicks correctly pointed out that the open enrollment policy negated any segregation in the Boston Public Schools; 4.) The Irish-Catholic working class was a vocal minority in the Boston neighborhoods, surpassed by all the Polish, Lithuanian, Estonian, and Lativian immigrants fleeing 1950's communist persecution from the former Soviet Union; and 5.) Attorney Louise Day Hicks correctly pointed out in the court order, Hennigan v. Morgan, that the offending federal judge was unable to determine "precisely" which schools were alledgedly segregated.

Moved here from the article -- Viajero 13:39, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

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Where is the attribution for the racial breakdown of Boston Public Schools students? And can someone attribute Hicks' prediction?

And Anonymous, as far as I know, the "open enrollment policy" did not end segregation; it allowed parents of means to pay for their child's transport to another school of their choice. Thus, it became a tool for white parents in racially diverse neighborhoods to send their children to school in majority-white neighborhoods, while most African-American families could not afford the extra expense, thus exascerbating the residential segregation of Boston's neighborhoods. I could be wrong here... Friedrichhajji 02:51, 10 November 2005 (UTC)