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Boston Against Busing
Language: en
Pages: 382
Authors: Ronald P. Formisano
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-01 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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Perhaps the most spectacular reaction to court-ordered busing in the 1970s occurred in Boston, where there was intense and protracted protest. Ron Formisano exp
Common Ground
Language: en
Pages: 688
Authors: J. Anthony Lukas
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-12 - Publisher: Vintage

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Grou
Before Busing
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Zebulon Vance Miletsky
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-11-29 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible. Partly as a result, when the 1972 crisis over school desegregation and busing eru
The Other Boston Busing Story
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Susan E. Eaton
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-23 - Publisher: Brandeis University Press

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"METCO, America's longest-running voluntary school desegregation program, has for 34 years bused black children from Boston's city neighborhoods to predominantl
All Deliberate Speed
Language: en
Pages: 412
Authors: Charles J. Ogletree
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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A Harvard Law School professor examines the impact that Brown v. Board of Education has had on his family, citing historical figures, while revealing how the re