The year 2024 marks fifty years since a federal court order was issued by US Judge W. Arthur Garrity mandating school desegregation in Boston which resulted in busing.
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Dennis Lehane’s 14th novel Small Mercies is set in 1970s Boston, where racial tensions hit home when a powerful central character learns humbling lessons
Through 1983, Boston politicians ran their campaigns along the eastern shore and southern border of Boston because that’s where the voting power was. East Boston, Charlestown, South Boston, the white part of Dorchester, Hyde Park, West Roxbury. Mel King changed the narrative that year when he became the first African American mayoral election finalist.