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For many in Boston, the story of “busing” begins in September 1974 with the explosive clash over mandatory desegregation of the city’s public schools. In the barrage of electrifying news reports, with angry white faces and violent attacks on busloads of Black students in South Boston, the word assumed a charge of its own, evoking white resistance to the dictates of a federal
Somewhere between the migration to the suburbs in the 20th century and the tight housing market of the ongoing “Big Sort,” there was a turning point called “the Big Downzone.” The term is used by public policy consultant Amy Dain in her new report for the Boston Indicators Project at The Boston Foundation, but her urge to decode the language of exclusionary zoning in Boston’s
They marched, they protested, and they gathered detailed proof that the Boston Public Schools were racially separate and unequal. When a stubborn school committee failed to acknowledge the problem and provide remedies, parents and activists organized one-day boycotts, carpooled, and raised money for student transportation to more adequate schools. They even opened their own
The history starts with a dream and becomes a nightmare, only to reawaken as a halting voice of trauma or equanimity steeped in regret. Such was the “moral arc” of Boston’s “long road to school desegregation” in the PBS “American Experience” documentary, “The Busing Battleground,” which premiered Monday night before 150 people at the Community Academy of Science and Health in
Moderate democrats were looking for joe biden to be the voice of the center of the party. instead saw in kind of wobbly rusty performance, and particularly be able to articulate issues of race, civil rights, busing, for a party that is now -- is now turning so young and so diverse. and frankly not being able to either explain or really defend or frankly being willing at all to apologize to suggest that you know maybe he was wrong at the time. >> now it's this whole -- the whole voluntary thing. >> the hair splitting, you know is a little over the top. joe biden was making moral and philosophic...