Lawrence DiCara

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ISBN 0-761-86182-3. Chris Black is listed as contributor. The author describes how he was affected personally and politically by the 1970s federally mandated policy that required Boston public school students to be reassigned to schools around the city in order to achieve racial integration.
  • DiCara (with James D Sutherland) has contributed several columns to Commonwealth Magazine analyzing the Boston mayoral election, 2013 and electoral shifts occurring in the city.
  • DiCara (with Charles P. Kindregan) Public education in Greater Boston : does America’s commitment to equality and integration stop at the city line?, Boston : Legal-Medical Studies, inc., 1977
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    Lawrence S. DiCara
    President of the Boston City Council
    In office
    1978
    Preceded by President of the Boston City Council
    1978
    Succeeded by
    Joseph M. Tierney