On September 12, 1974, police were stationed outside Boston schools as Black and white students were bused for the first time to comply with a federal court desegregation order. Shocking violence, directed mostly at children, ensued. The Busing Battleground illuminates the volatile effort to end school segregation, and the decades-long struggle for educational equity that preceded the crisis. American Experience | PBS presents a story from the long road to school desegregation in the U.S. - The
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Was the violence that took place around school de-segregation in Boston in 1974 inevitable? Cyndee Readdean, co-director/producer of THE BUSING BATTLEGROUND shared her perspective in our recent panel discussion on school integration and educational equity. For more of this conversation, watch the full event on YouTube → https://youtu.be/8OCLBYJCzao | American Experience | PBS
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On September 12, 1974, police were stationed outside schools across Boston as Black and white students were bused for the first time as part of a desegregation plan ordered by Judge W. Arthur Garrity. The cross-town busing was met with shocking violence as angry white protestors hurled rocks and racial epithets at Black children arriving at their new schools. It was, as Mayor Kevin White's Chief of Staff Ira Jackson recalled, human nature at its ugliest. | American Experience | PBS
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