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Urban Renewal's Hidden Victims
- Boston's urban renewal displaced poor communities and concentrated hardships in cleared neighborhoods.
- Displaced working-class whites faced higher rents, vanishing services, and loss of community cohesion.
Louise Day Hicks' Populist Rise
- Louise Day Hicks rose as a populist school committee chair opposing desegregation and defended segregated neighborhoods.
- She campaigned with coded slogans like "You know where I stand" and galvanized South Boston anger.
Systemic School Inequality
- Boston schools showed stark resource and staffing disparities between black and white schools.
- Black schools lacked basic safety, spent less per student, and had almost no African American teachers or administrators.