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Busing isn't new to Boston. Last year, some 1000 children were transported to less crowded schools-at the city's expense. And Superintendent William Ohrenberger had proposed to add another 583 students this fall to ease overcrowding in three Roxbury schools.
The controversy was touched off two months ago when Thomas Eisenstadt, a member of the Boston School Committee, counter Ohrenberger's plan with a proposal to stop all busing designed to end school overcrowding. Later he revised his motion so as to apply only to new busing. The resolution passed...
Late in August Mrs. Jackson called an emergency meeting of Roxbury parents, who organized the Roxbury and North Dorchester Parents Committee. They discussed different possibilities for action, including private busing if the school committee held firm. Two days before school began in September, the RNDPC petitioned the School Committee to...
Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, the School Committee Chairman, who is noted for her refusal to admit the existence of de facto segregation, answered the parents group. She told them that the School Committee would not rehash the busing question, but promised that there would be no double sessions.
Farmer also urged civil rights groups to work for "educational upgrading in the Negro community." Endorsing student busing he said, "In rural areas we bus students all over counties to central schools for the sake of quality education. We must do it in cities too for the benefit of both...