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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
In 2023, American Experience partnered with StoryCorps Studios to record, uplift and archive stories about racial desegregation and educational equity efforts in American schools. These personal accounts reflect experiences from an array of regional, racial, ethnic, and gender perspectives, providing a link to a formative chapter in the story of modern America. These stories you are about to listen to are unedited accounts of those experiences.
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.
American Experience"The Harvest"Premieres Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 9 pm on PBS and Streaming on PBS.org Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Douglas Blackmon Explores His Experiences as Part of
On Sept. 12, 1974, Boston stepped into the nation’s spotlight when Black and white students were, for the first time, bused between neighborhoods as ordered by a federal desegregation court.