The desegregation of Boston public schools (1974–1988) was a period in which the Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through...
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Desegregation busing (also known simply as busing or integrated busing or by its critics as forced busing) was a failed attempt to diversify the racial...
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the AFL–CIO. In 1975, efforts to integrate Boston schools via busing were complicated when hundreds of Boston police officers called in sick due to a BPPA...
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Raymond Flynn (category Mayors of Boston)
South Boston neighborhood during the turbulent Boston desegregation busing crisis of the early 1970s. Flynn opposed federally-mandated school busing. Throughout...
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Committee on the Los Angeles Crisis, Sacramento: Assembly Publications Office, 1992. Webster Commission, The City in Crisis' A Report by the Special Advisor...
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department and the public works department, legal fees, and fees from a crisis communications firm. Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital, a private hospital...
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firecracker. Police filled an MTA bus with detainees; 65 people at the event were arrested, including 30 juveniles. The bus was attacked by other people attempting...
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The Boston Globe. Retrieved May 19, 2021. Enninga, Heidi (May 6, 2021). "Documenting Street Art, St. Thomas Researchers Better Understand Crisis". St...
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Kevin White (politician) (category Boston College Law School alumni)
them after narrowly winning the 1975 election during the Boston school desegregation busing crisis and subsequently constructed a classic and centralized...
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president for stoking tension and casting blame on officials during an active crisis event. In the suburban City of Apple Valley during the early morning hours...
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METCO (category School desegregation pioneers)
running voluntary school desegregation program in the country and a national model for the few other voluntary desegregation busing programs currently in...
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alert in case the administration decided to intervene in the Boston desegregation busing crisis. In May 1978, the division was alerted to a possible drop...
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to protest the grand jury's decision in more than 170 U.S. cities from Boston to Los Angeles, and that National Guard forces were reinforced at Ferguson...
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W. Arthur Garrity Jr. (category Boston College faculty)
1974 order in Morgan v. Hennigan which mandated that Boston schools be desegregated by means of busing. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Garrity received...
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the history of the United States (1980–present) 1980–1991 Boston desegregation busing crisis (1974–1988) 1980 Miami riots 1982 Overtown riot Cabbage Patch...
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Ted Landsmark (category Boston Architectural College)
Landsmark's way to a meeting in Boston City Hall, he was met by young demonstrators against the Boston Desegregation Busing Crisis. It depicts a young white...
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the first high school in the South Boston neighborhood. During the Boston busing crisis in the 1970s, several racial incidents took place at the school....
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Common Ground (Lukas book) (category Books about Boston)
Knopf in 1985, that examines race relations in Boston, Massachusetts, through the prism of desegregation busing. It received the Pulitzer Prize for General...
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Commission unanimously refused to allow an anti-busing float during the nearby Boston desegregation busing crisis. In 1971, after Arthur "Mr. Wake Up America"...
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Small Mercies (novel) (category Novels set in Boston)
murder, in the days approaching the first day of school during the Boston busing crisis. Lehane has signaled that the novel "may be his last." The cover...
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in Harrisburg but were taking extra safety precautions such as increased crisis response teams patrolling the area. However, it was later reported by York...
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strike, July, Baltimore, Maryland 1974 – Boston desegregation busing riots: at least 40 riots throughout Boston, Massachusetts from September 1974 through...
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Marion Fahey (category Boston Public Schools superintendents)
educator who served as superintendent of the Boston Public Schools during the Boston desegregation busing crisis. Fahey was born in Worcester, Massachusetts...
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while city crews removed makeshift barricades that included trash cans, a bus shelter, and other objects. The night of June 15, police detained several...
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weapon during the height of the Boston Desegregation Busing Crisis. In 1979, Forman's photography staff at the Boston Herald American won a Pulitzer Prize...
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Restore Our Alienated Rights (category African-American history in Boston)
was an organization formed in Boston, Massachusetts by Louise Day Hicks in 1974. Opposed to desegregation busing of Boston's public school students, the...
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