We want to hear your stories as we enter the start of the school year, 50 years since the Boston Public Schools desegregation busing order in 1974. A fight breaks out at Hyde Park High School in ...
Donald Wong, a South Ender who was bused to Charlestown, shares his story of busing – fifty years since the desegregation order took effect in September 1974. A school bus carrying only a few ...
When William G. “Bill” Fletcher Jr. ’76 arrived at Harvard in 1972, he thought he had come to a welcoming city. He knew Boston was segregated. But from the outside, he said, the city still carried a ...
Fifty years ago Sept. 12, the first school buses rolled through Boston as part of a federal judge’s order to desegregate the Boston schools; an initiative often known as busing. For the past three ...
Students approach the gates of Hyde Park High School as Boston entered its sixth week of court-mandated school busing, Associated Press This article is the sixth in a series called A Thousand Words, ...
Fifty years after Boston’s court-ordered busing plan was implemented to desegregate the city’s public schools, Boston continues to grapple with the fallout of the controversial decision. For Kim Janey ...
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the North’s worst episode of school desegregation–related racial violence: Boston’s busing riots. Mobs hurled rocks at buses filled with black students newly ...
Bostonians involved in and impacted by the federal court decision that brought busing to desegregate the city’s schools 50 years ago gathered on the eve of its 50 anniversary to discuss the reality ...
This map contains some images and descriptions of violence. Discretion is advised. Massachusetts was the first state in the nation to outlaw segregation in public schools. Yet for years, the Boston ...
To Sin Wah Lee’s family, she’s known as a “warrior mom,” someone who fights for her children. Back in the 1970s, Sin Wah Lee and other Chinatown mothers organized a three-day bus boycott at the start ...
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