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Anna Louise Day Hicks (October 16, 1916 – October 21, 2003) was an American politician and lawyer from Boston, Massachusetts, best known for her staunch opposition to desegregation in Boston public schools, and especially to court-ordered busing, in the 1960s and 1970s.
23 de oct. de 2003 · Oct. 23, 2003. Louise Day Hicks, the Boston public school official and City Council member whose opposition to busing to achieve school integration helped to polarize the city in the 1960's...
23 de oct. de 2003 · Times Staff Writer. Louise Day Hicks, an icon of Boston’s racial politics during the bruising busing battles of the 1960s, died Tuesday after a period of poor health. She was 87. Hicks...
Louise Day Hicks was a leader of the anti-busing movement in Boston in the 1970s, which opposed the court-mandated integration of the city's schools. She organized rallies, boycotts, and violence against black students and their supporters, and became a symbol of white resistance to desegregation.
23 de oct. de 2003 · By Adam Bernstein. October 22, 2003 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Louise Day Hicks, 87, who tapped into racial and class discontent to become leader of the anti-busing movement in her native Boston, died...
2 de sept. de 2023 · The white people in power, led by Louise Day Hicks, then the head of the Boston School Committee, stonewalled and riled up public support for the status quo.
11 de sept. de 2023 · Louise Day Hicks: You know, it doesn't matter what the color of her mother’s skin is. She wants her little child in the neighborhood school. If you ask me, you know where I stand.
