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 ...
As Told To 50 years after busing in Boston: ‘My potential was lost’ Victoria Kelley was bused from Roslindale to Jamaica Plain in 1974. She shares her story of busing – fifty years since the ...
BOSTON — Fifty years to the day since yellow school buses first rolled Boston toward a desegregated future, some of the players from the era’s historic events returned to the scene and reminisced ...
Fifty years to the day since yellow school buses first rolled Boston toward a desegregated future, some of the players from the era’s historic events returned to the scene and reminisced about how ...
It's been 50 years since the Boston Busing Crisis. It was a period where Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students between predominantly white ...
On the 50th anniversary of the federal court decision to integrate Boston schools, a group of 20 people stood on the red brick walkway in front of the Massachusetts State House at one of the first ...
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 ...
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, ...
Outside of the Boston Celtics’ two NBA titles, the 1970s marked a dark decade in the city’s history. The Boston desegregation busing crisis led to a series of racial protests and violent riots that ...
Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible. Partly as a result, when the 1972 crisis over school ...
A new walk-and-ride tour hosted by the Boston Desegregation and Busing Initiative is highlighting key locations in the controversial effort to desegregate the city's schools NBC Universal, Inc. Fifty ...