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Desegregation Busing. In response to decades of racial segregation, in 1974, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts required the Boston Public Schools to integrate the city’s schools through busing. Court-mandated busing, which continued until 1988, provoked enormous outrage among many white Bostonians, and helped to ...
- Morgan V. Hennigan
The case had landed in front of Judge Wendell Arthur Garrity...
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- Morgan V. Hennigan
The desegregation of Boston public schools (1974–1988) was a period in which the Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students. The call for desegregation and the first years of its implementation led to a series of racial protests and riots that brought national attention, particularly from ...
Sep 5, 2014 · The year busing began, there were 86,000 students enrolled in Boston public schools, more than half of them white. Today there are 54,000 students, and less than 14 percent are white.
- Bruce Gellerman
School desegregation in Boston. From 1974 to 1976, the court-ordered busing of students to achieve school desegregation led to sporadic outbreaks of violence in Boston's schools and in the city's largely segregated neighborhoods. Although Boston was by no means the only American city to undertake a plan of school desegregation, the forced ...
- Charlotte Busing Seen as A Success
- Protests Turn Violent in Boston
- Voluntary Busing Programs Peak in 1980s
- Historians Mixed on Busing's Legacy
In 1971, the Supreme Court’s ruling in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education unanimously upheld busing. The decision effectively sped up school integration, which had been slow to take root. After the ruling, school integration in Charlotte, North Carolina was lauded as a success, with schools across the country looking to the city as a...
Court-ordered busing faced a tougher battle in Boston after U.S. District Judge W. Arthur Garrity ordered the city’s public schools to desegregate in June 1974. Protests in the New England city erupted and persisted for months, sometimes turning violent. "More than 400 court orders would be required to carry out the busing plan over the next decade...
Busing programs became voluntary in many communities following the passage of the General Education Provisions Actof 1974, which prohibits federally appropriated funds for busing. Berkeley, California was among the cities that continued a voluntary busing program. The plan, which led future Vice President Kamala Harris—then a kindergartner—to atten...
In his book, Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation, Matthew Delmont, a professor of history at Dartmouth College, writes that the hot-button issue of the busing crisis was not about busing but “about unconstitutional racial discrimination in the public schools. … Judges ordered ‘busing’ as a remedy in n...
- Lesley Kennedy
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Jan 9, 2024 · ISBN: 9781634139199. Publication Date: 2016-06-07. Boston's 1970s busing crisis is a critical moment in America's civil rights movement. Championed as a solution to segregation in northern city schools, forced busing became one of the most divisive and regrettable episodes in Boston's long and distinguished history.
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Mar 29, 2016 · Across Boston’s public schools in the 1950s, per-pupil spending averaged $340 for white students compared with only $240 for blacks students. Over the years, data of this sort failed to persuade ...
