Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To many outsiders, Boston Public Schools’ court-ordered integration campaign of the 1970s and ‘80s was an unqualified failure that ...

When William G. “Bill” Fletcher Jr. ’76 arrived at Harvard in 1972, he thought he had come to a welcoming city. He knew Boston was segregated. But from the outside, he said, the city still carried a ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the North’s worst episode of school desegregation–related racial violence: Boston’s busing riots. Mobs hurled rocks at buses filled with black students newly ...

Fifty years ago Sept. 12, the first school buses rolled through Boston as part of a federal judge’s order to desegregate the Boston schools; an initiative often known as busing. For the past three ...

Every day, more than 600 Boston Public Schools buses zigzag across the city to transport more than 22,000 children to and from hundreds of schools. School choice, a legacy of Boston’s integration ...

We want to hear your stories as we enter the start of the school year, 50 years since the Boston Public Schools desegregation busing order in 1974. A fight breaks out at Hyde Park High School in ...

In 1974, U.S. District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. ordered the Boston Public Schools to bus students between predominantly white and Black neighborhoods. The plan was intended to integrate the ...

In the 50 years since the court decision that finally desegregated Boston’s public schools, praise for U.S. District Judge Arthur Garrity’s ruling in Morgan v. Hennigan has been scant. Shortly after ...

Donald Wong, a South Ender who was bused to Charlestown, shares his story of busing – fifty years since the desegregation order took effect in September 1974. A school bus carrying only a few ...

This map contains some images and descriptions of violence. Discretion is advised. Massachusetts was the first state in the nation to outlaw segregation in public schools. Yet for years, the Boston ...