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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.
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...
Oct 23, 2003 · 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 dominated Boston politics...
Louise Day Hicks was a controversial Boston political figure who opposed school desegregation in the 1960s and 1970s. She was the first woman to run for mayor of Boston and a symbol of white backlash against civil rights.
By 1976, the iron grip that Louise Day Hicks had on anti-busing protesting and ROAR began to falter. By this time, the organization splintered into factions, each group having their own political agendas and level of radical conservatism, which resulted in fighting within the organization.
Mar 18, 2017 · On the steps of the Capitol, Louise Day Hicks, dubbed “the Joan of Arc of Boston,” rallied the sodden crowd. The day before, leaders from fourteen states formed a national anti-busing coalition and appointed Hicks as chairperson.
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.
