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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
Violence erupted in the wake of an order to desegregate Boston public schools in 1974 — and a long struggle for educational equity preceded it. On PBS, "American Experience" tells the story.
Premieres Monday, Sept. 11, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encores Wednesday, Sept. 13 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 16 at 6 a.m. and Noon on KPBS 2. "The Busing Battleground" viscerally captures the class tensions and racial violence that ensued when Black and white students in Boston were bused for the first time between neighborhoods to comply with a federal desegregation order.
American Experience"The Busing Battleground"Premieres Monday, September 11, 2023 at 9 pm on PBS and Streaming on PBS.org Film Tells the Story of the Bitter Struggle to Integrate Boston’s Sch
E. Simms Campbell was one of the first Black illustrators for the Post, and he went on to enjoy a wildly successful illustration career. It all started with a knock on his door.