Talks about the Garisson decision of the Supreme Court that ordered desegregation in Boston and the busing crisis that followed, studying what happened and its legacy.
Authors Lucy Caldwell, Jan Carson, and Michelle Gallen are embarking on a tour of the East Coast for "A New Chapter: Women Writing Northern Ireland Now."
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The history starts with a dream and becomes a nightmare, only to reawaken as a halting voice of trauma or equanimity steeped in regret. Such was the “moral arc” of Boston’s “long road to school desegregation” in the PBS “American Experience” documentary, “The Busing Battleground,” which premiered Monday night before 150 people at the Community Academy of Science and Health in
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.