For many in Boston, the story of “busing” begins in September 1974 with the explosive clash over mandatory desegregation of the city’s public schools. In the barrage of electrifying news reports, with angry white faces and violent attacks on busloads of Black students in South Boston, the word assumed a charge of its own, evoking white resistance to the dictates of a federal
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.
Dorchester’s Dennis Lehane will be back in Boston next month to talk about his new novel, “Small Mercies,” which is set amid the tumult of desegregation and busing in 1974 Boston. He will speak on Sun., March 3, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square. You must register and seats are limited. Go to bpl.org and click on events to find the link. This
Somewhere between the migration to the suburbs in the 20th century and the tight housing market of the ongoing “Big Sort,” there was a turning point called “the Big Downzone.” The term is used by public policy consultant Amy Dain in her new report for the Boston Indicators Project at The Boston Foundation, but her urge to decode the language of exclusionary zoning in Boston’s
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