Correspondence between Boston City Councilor Louise Day Hicks and Congressman John Joseph Moakley

Correspondence between Boston City Councilor Louise Day Hicks and Congressman John Joseph Moakley

Boston (Mass.)
Boston (Mass.). City Council
Boston Public Schools
Busing for school integration
Garrity, W. Arthur (Wendell Arthur), 1920-1999
Hicks, Louise Day, 1916-2003
Kastenmeier, Robert
Moakley, John Joseph, 1927-2001
South Boston (Boston, Mass.)
South Boston High School

This correspondence includes a letter sent to Congressman Moakley from anti-busing advocate and Boston City Councilor Louise Day Hicks, as well as Moakley’s reply. In her letter, Councilor Hicks reacts to Judge Garrity’s receivership orders for South Boston High School, implying that such an order violates due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. She asks Moakley to form a Congressional task force to investigate and report on the true meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. In his reply, Moakley asserts that he also disagrees with the receivership orders, but that the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties and the Administration of Justice, which would be responsible for any legislation on the matter, has declined to take action. Moakley includes a copy of Subcommittee Chairman Bob Kastenmeier’s letter to him, which outlines this decision.

Hicks, Louise Day/Moakley John Joseph/Kastenmeier, Robert

Congressman John Joseph Moakley Papers, 1926-2001 (MS100)
Series 04 District Issues, Box 5 Folder 55

John Joseph Moakley Archive & Institute at Suffolk University, Boston, Mass.

December 12, 1975/January 12, 1976/January 6, 1976

Kintz, Laura

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Letters

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Letters