The NAACP and the Boston Public School System

Louise Day Hicks, an old school Irish Catholic and chairperson of the Boston School Committee. Her father was a very respected man in South Boston who loaned out money to people under the table. Four of the 13 black schools in Boston had health and safety problems so horrible they were supposed to have been closed. Per people spending for black students was on average $100 less than whiteStudents. The district employed almost no African American teachers or administrators with many white teachers hostile and racist towards black students.