Who Was Involved in the Boston Busing?

U.S. District Judge Arthur Garrity ordered the busing of African American students to predominantly white schools and white students to black schools in an effort to integrate Boston's geographically segregated public schools.

Was the Boston busing crisis good or bad?

Critics say simply busing poor kids from one failed school to another could never create a more equal and integrated school system. Amid the chaos, some 30,000 students, mostly white, left the Boston Public Schools for parochial and private schools.

When did school desegregation start in Boston?

Community and judicial efforts to push the City of Boston to voluntarily desegregate its schools failed, and in 1974, a federal judge imposed court-ordered desegregation via busing between neighborhoods in the landmark Morgan v. Hennigan decision.