We want to hear your stories as we enter the start of the school year, 50 years since the Boston Public Schools desegregation busing order in 1974. A fight breaks out at Hyde Park High School in ...

Donald Wong, a South Ender who was bused to Charlestown, shares his story of busing – fifty years since the desegregation order took effect in September 1974. A school bus carrying only a few ...

When William G. “Bill” Fletcher Jr. ’76 arrived at Harvard in 1972, he thought he had come to a welcoming city. He knew Boston was segregated. But from the outside, he said, the city still carried a ...

Motorcycle police escort school buses as they leave South Boston High School at the end of sessions on the second day of court-ordered busing, Sept. 14, 1974. Some buses were stoned and several ...

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 ...

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, ...

Fifty years ago Sept. 12, the first school buses rolled through Boston as part of a federal judge’s order to desegregate the Boston schools; an initiative often known as busing. For the past three ...

Two friends (one Black, one white) saw busing rip their neighborhood apart. First came the firebombings. Then all the Black families moved out. Growing up in East Boston, Robert Lewis Jr. — nicknamed ...

Bostonians involved in and impacted by the federal court decision that brought busing to desegregate the city’s schools 50 years ago gathered on the eve of its 50 anniversary to discuss the reality ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the North’s worst episode of school desegregation–related racial violence: Boston’s busing riots. Mobs hurled rocks at buses filled with black students newly ...

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