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<b>American Experience PBS</b> presents a conversation with the filmmakers of our two new films <b>The Busing Battleground</b> and <b>The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools</b> exploring the struggle for school integration in the United States. The conversation will feature clips from both films and discussions with the filmmakers on the progress of educational equity and the work that remains to be done.<br/><br/>The event will be held at the <b>Jack Morton Auditorium</b> on the campus of the George Washington University...

On September 12, 1974, police were stationed outside schools across Boston as Black and white students were bused for the first time between neighborhoods to comply with a federal court desegregation order. The cross-town busing was met with shocking violence, much of it directed at children: angry white protestors threw rocks at school buses carrying Black children and hurled racial epithets at the students as they walked into their new schools. The chaos and racial unrest would escalate and continue for years. Using eyewitness accounts, oral histories and news footage that hasn’t been seen...

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.

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.

Two new films from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE that examine the deeply mixed legacy of America’s efforts to racially integrate public schools in the 1970s uncover shocking truths.