Redlining & Busing: A Conversation Series | Desegregation and Busing

Wednesday October 7 at 6:00 about Boston School Desegregation and Busing.…that tore the city apart by race and class and what was accomplished too. How students from back then still carry the trauma of those events 50 years later.

How the Boston School Committee reneged on a promise to open the Lee School as an integrated school in return for massive state aid to build this school and that sparked a rebellion of 600 Dorchester white parents on school assignments. This played role in Federal Judge Garrity declaring the schools had been illegally segregated and had to be desegregated. At the JustBook-ish Book Store, 1463 Dorchester Avenue, Fields Corner, Boston Desegregation and Busing