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"He was dearly the most brilliant and insightful civil rights lawyer, both in and beyond Boston, to take on the challenges of school desegregation," Ted Landsmark, who worked with Atkins in the late 70s as a lawyer at Atkins' Boston law firm, Atkins and Brown, told the Boston Globe.
In a 1994 interview with the Globe, Atkins was particularly blunt. Court-ordered busing, Atkins said, "forced open the lid on Boston's poorly kept, nasty little secret, which was citywide racism ... Members of the [Boston] School Committee placed their own political salvation over the welfare of the city or the school system or the schoolchildren.""He spent his entire life pursuing education for everyone," Tbdd Atkins, the deceased's oldest son, told the Boston Herald. "His family sacrificed for him, and I think he wanted to give back"See the full content of this document
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Atkins, First Black Hub City Councilor, Dies at 69
Thomas Atkins, Boston's first black atlarge city councilor, who faced off against school busing opponents as an NAACP leader in the 1970s, h...
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