![]() He is now a member of the national NAACP Board of Directors and part of the Boston Desegregation and Busing Initiative. In the lead up to the anniversary of those events, dozens of community leaders are launching a new three-year initiative to remember the busing program and reflect on its legacy through conversations and exhibits.Īmong those leaders is Michael Curry, who was bused from his home in Roxbury to a Charlestown school as a child. That decision led to thousands of Black and white students being bused to schools out of their neighborhoods, and white Bostonians reacted with riots and violent protests. ![]() Next summer marks 50 years since a federal judge ordered Boston to integrate its public schools. Facebook Email Bused black schoolchildren arrive with police escort at South Boston High School during court-ordered desegregation crisis, South Boston, Massachusetts, 1974. ![]()
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