Public Schools: Boston's Busing Battle
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She seems like the sort who can take care of herself. A onetime suburban Boston schoolteacher, she served as law clerk for ten years to her father District Judge William J. Day, and got her own law degree from Boston University in 1955. She now runs a law practice with her brother—when she is not running the schools and her household.
Though she has been severely criticized for her militancy on the Negro-school question, it is not Mrs. Hicks herself who stands in the way of the Negro. Most of white Boston is quite content with the neighborhoods. When Mrs. Hicks ran for a second term on the school committee in 1963, she got a bigger vote than the mayor.
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