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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jun 25, 2024 · Despite years of protests and calls for change, the Boston School Committee resisted reforms that would integrate the city’s schools. The School Committee’s most vocal opponent of forced integration was Louise Day Hicks, a white woman from South Boston who served as its chairwoman from 1963 to 1965, and who favored neighborhood schools and denied de facto segregation was a problem.
Jul 9, 2019 · 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 ...
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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.
