Byrne made inclusive moves as mayor, such as hiring the first African-American and female school superintendent Ruth B. Love, and she was the first mayor to recognize the gay community. She also ended the police department's practice of raiding gay bars. However, during her tenure, she drifted away from many of the progressive tenets she had campaigned on. Byrne began to closely work with alderman such as Edward M. Burke and Ed Vrdolyak, who during her campaign she had denounced as an "evil cabal". She adopted more conservative stances on race. Among steps she took that upset many of the progressives and blacks that had supported her in her mayoral campaign was replacing black members of the Chicago Board of Education and Chicago Housing Authority board with white members, some of whom even held racist stances. In part, this was motivated by a worry for her reelection, particularly that Richard J. Daley's son, Richard M. Daley, might challenge her for the mayoralty (which he ultimately would), and that she would need to work to appeal to the white base of support he could capture.