On the 50th anniversary of the federal court decision to integrate Boston schools, a group of 20 people stood on the red brick walkway in front of the Massachusetts State House at one of the first ...
BOSTON — Fifty years to the day since yellow school buses first rolled Boston toward a desegregated future, some of the players from the era's historic events returned to the scene and reminisced ...
I am writing in response to the very important Sept. 10 op-ed by Lew Finfer, “On the 50th anniversary of Boston busing, what have we learned?” The need to acknowledge the decades-long struggle to ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- After 30 years of running its schools under a court-ordered busing plan meant to desegregate, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg district has been ordered to stop basing school assignments ...
Fifty years after Boston’s court-ordered busing plan was implemented to desegregate the city’s public schools, Boston continues to grapple with the fallout of the controversial decision. For Kim Janey ...
Despite strong community resistance, court-ordered busing in 1975 Louisville did not result in significant "white flight" out of the county. Studies show a small percentage of white families left, ...
This week marks a major anniversary for a milestone in Louisville's history with desegregation.Fifty years ago, in 1975, thousands of students were forced to bus to new schools all across Jefferson ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — In 1971, two friends, Andre Gibson and Thomas Mclin took part in the desegregation efforts that shaped the city's educational landscape. At Andrew Jackson Courts 52 years ago ...
We want to hear your stories as we enter the start of the school year, 50 years since the Boston Public Schools desegregation busing order in 1974. A fight breaks out at Hyde Park High School in ...
On September 12, 1974, police were stationed outside schools across Boston as Black and white students were bused for the first time between neighborhoods to comply with a federal court desegregation ...
In 1974, Boston's public schools were forced under court order to desegregate. The process—which came to be known as "Boston busing"—called for students from predominately black and white areas of the ...
LOUISVLLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Jefferson County Public Schools will begin a new chapter of its storied transportation history Aug. 8 when nearly 100,000 kids return to class across Louisville. For the last ...