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Busing in Boston: A research guide. Moakley Archive & Institute, Suffolk University. Short YouTube video on Boston's busing crisis; How The Boston Busing Decision Still Affects City Schools 40 Years Later; Stark & Subtle Divisions: A Collaborative History of Segregation in Boston; Mayor Kevin H. White records, 1929-1999 (Bulk, 1968-1983).
Although Boston was by no means the only American city to undertake a plan of school desegregation, the forced busing of students from some of the city's most impoverished and racially segregated neighborhoods led to an unprecedented level of violence and turmoil in the city's streets and classrooms and made national headlines. [1]
The Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, Inc. (METCO, Inc.), based primarily in the metropolitan Boston, Massachusetts area, is the largest and second-longest continuously running voluntary school desegregation program in the United States.
In Boston, ridership on the three routes that dropped fares grew 35% from 2021 to 2022, while ridership on the rest of the bus system grew 15%. According to rider surveys , 26% of passengers along ...
The Jefferson County Board of Education voted to end busing for the vast majority of magnet school students during its Wednesday meeting. Bus transportation is ending for most JCPS magnet schools ...
Robert Dentler, a sociologist who helped Judge Garrity draft the busing plan, criticized Common Ground for "distorted, questionable legends" and a "docudramatic method of reporting" that "cloak[ed] the ignorance, fear, and hostility of the minority of citizens in the white enclaves of Boston who initiated racial violence in the robe of civic innocence."
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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