The Fight Against Boston’s Educational Apartheid
<p>I have never heard White people cry in the face of racial injustice. But about a month ago, I could hear the quiet tears of the audience as I watched a screening of <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/busing-battleground/#part01" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">The Busing Battleground</a>- a film by the American Experience about the decade long struggle to desegregate Boston Public Schools (BPS). The images of the violent White mobs that physically threatened and verbally attacked Black students outside of integrated schools year after year until the end of busing were overwhelming.</p>
<p>Busing to integrate BPS ended in 1989. But from 1974 to 1988, 164 Boston Public Schools took part in busing, shuttling thousands of Black children to White neighborhoods to attend school and vice versa.</p>
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