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On January 21, 1976, 1,300 black and white students fought each other at Hyde Park High, and at South Boston High on February 15, anti-busing activists organized marches under a parade permit from the Andrew Square and Broadway MBTA Red Line stations which would meet and end at South Boston High.
On April 5, 1976, Theodore Landsmark, a black lawyer and executive director of the Boston Contractors' Association, was on his way to a meeting at City Hall when he was intercepted by a delegation of South Boston and Charlestown High students who were leaving the city council chamber after having aired their views on busing.
The image was taken for the Boston Herald American in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 5, 1976, during one in a series of protests against court-ordered desegregation busing. [1] It ran on the front page of the Herald American the next day, and also appeared in several newspapers across the country. [1] It won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Spot ...
Desegregation busing (also known simply as busing or integrated busing or forced busing) was an attempt to diversify the racial make-up of schools in the United States by sending students to school districts other than their own. [1] While the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court landmark decision in Brown v.
Francesca "Fran" Johnnene (died 2015) was a leading anti-busing advocate during the desegregation of Boston's Public Schools in the 1970s. [1] She was an executive of the Association of Neighborhood Schools and a national representative and board member of Restore Our Alienated Rights (ROAR), a Boston-based anti-busing organization.
Morgan v. Hennigan was the case that defined the school busing controversy in Boston, Massachusetts during the 1970s. On March 14, 1972, the Boston chapter of the NAACP filed a class action lawsuit against the Boston School Committee on behalf of 14 black parents and 44 children. [1]
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On April 29, 1975, Fahey was appointed superintendent of the Boston Public Schools. She was elected on the second ballot when Paul Tierney who had voted for incumbent superintendent William J. Leary broke a 2–2 deadlock between Paul J. Ellison and John J. Kerrigan, who voted for Fahey and John J. McDonough and Kathleen Sullivan, who voted for associate superintendent Paul A. Kennedy.