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OTD 1974, school busing begins in Boston to end decades of discrimination. Enraged white parents & their kids violently protest by hurling bricks at buses and assaulting Black students from Roxbury to South Boston. One man told a reporter: "They let the nig*ers in." #JimCrowNorthpic.twitter.com/IgLQoD2GPW
Racial tensions in Boston persisted. In 1976, a Black lawyer, Ted Landsmark, was heading to Boston’s city hall when he was attacked by a mob after accidentally walked into an anti-busing protest. One violent protester lunged at him with the sharp point of a flagpole.pic.twitter.com/d8wuB5Mn1M
School desegregation efforts in Boston led to white flight. In 1974, white students made up over 50% of the 86,000 students in Boston’s public schools. By 2014, that number dropped to 14%.
I mean this was not ancient history. It's in my lifetime!?
I remember seeing a photo as a preteen of a Black man in a suit in Boston being assaulted either for carrying an American flag or by the flag being used as a weapon. #BornIn1965 #AmericanTrauma #Unforgettable
The year I was born filled with bigotries and meanness.
As a teenager growing up in S.F. I remember seeing these pictures on the front page of The Chronicle for weeks. It was horrific and shook the belief out of me that the south was where all the racists were.
Boston is still a racist city.
Busing in hindsight was just wrong maybe putting money equally to all would have been the BEST
I was a rare white high school student in Detroit during that time who marched for the solution you suggest. Schools were funded by local property taxes. Money NEVER followed Black children in Black schools in Black neighborhoods. Busing or state funding add-ons were only way.
I started kindergarten in MA in 74. I remember the parents came to recess. I remember the buses. My parents tell 2 different stories of that year - one kind, we don't talk to my father much anymore. As a kid, I thought it was nice to have more friends. I see the complexity now.
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