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Indeed it would not take much to ignite Boston's racial tensions. Last year 18,200 of the city's 94,000 public school pupils were bused for desegregation to 80 schools; this week 26,000 will be bused to desegregate 162 schools in almost all parts of...
Boston's stubborn resistance to busing is largely based in Irish-Catholic working-class neighborhoods such as South Boston and Charlestown, where whites want little to do with what they perceive as the alien and threatening culture of inner-city blacks. Says Maurice Gillen, a meter reader for Boston...
Many whites in Boston, convinced by such antibusing demagogues as Louise Day Hicks, a former member of the school committee, have thought over the years that desegregation could be prevented. Now they are frustrated. "When a community senses that social change is going to take place come hell or high...
Busing as a means of achieving racial balance in the schools may well be the most unpopular institution imposed on Americans since Prohibition. Nevertheless, some U.S. communities have obediently−if not happily−accepted busing as part of the law of the land and carried it out peacefully. Last...
Yet even in communities that have fully obeyed the courts, the fear of busing often precipitates the flight of whites, who move to the suburbs or take their children out of public schools to escape desegregation. During the three years busing has been used to desegregate the Atlanta schools, 40...