On September 12, 1974, police were stationed outside Boston schools as Black and white students were bused for the first time to comply with a federal court desegregation order. Shocking violence, directed mostly at children, ensued. The Busing Battleground illuminates the volatile effort to end school segregation, and the decades-long struggle for educational equity that preceded the crisis. American Experience | PBS presents a story from the long road to school desegregation in the U.S. - The
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On September 12, 1974, police were stationed outside schools across Boston as Black and white students were bused for the first time as part of a desegregation plan ordered by Judge W. Arthur Garrity. The cross-town busing was met with shocking violence as angry white protestors hurled rocks and racial epithets at Black children arriving at their new schools. It was, as Mayor Kevin White's Chief of Staff Ira Jackson recalled, human nature at its ugliest. | American Experience | PBS
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Leola Hampton was a high school student in 1974 when Boston’s busing program began. The busing program started after Judge W. Arthur Garrity ruled that the Boston School Committee, which serves as the school board for Boston Public Schools, was guilty of intentionally segregating the city’s schools. Garrity implemented the busing plan to solve the problem. Phase one of the plan began by busing Black and White high school kids to each other’s neighborhood for school. Hampton recalls being surroun
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