On the 50th anniversary of the federal court decision to integrate Boston schools, a group of 20 people stood on the red brick walkway in front of the Massachusetts State House at one of the first ...

The origins of "anti-busing" politics : from New York protests to the Civil Rights Act -- Surrender in Chicago : cities' rights and the limits of federal enforcement of school desegregation -- Boston ...

Jackson was one of several special guests participating in a seven-stop walk-and-ride tour hosted by the Boston Desegregation and Busing Initiative. The group's 45-member committee has a series of ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- After 30 years of running its schools under a court-ordered busing plan meant to desegregate, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg district has been ordered to stop basing school assignments ...

In 1974, Boston's public schools were forced under court order to desegregate. The process—which came to be known as "Boston busing"—called for students from predominately black and white areas of the ...

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 ...

I am writing in response to the very important Sept. 10 op-ed by Lew Finfer, “On the 50th anniversary of Boston busing, what have we learned?” The need to acknowledge the decades-long struggle to ...

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 ...

Two Delaware schools played an important role in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that desegregated public schools 70 years ago and marked a turning point in America’s civil ...