In Boston, Massachusetts, opposition to court-ordered school “busing” turns violent on the opening day of classes. School buses carrying African American children were pelted with eggs, bricks, and bottles, and police in combat gear fought to control angry white protesters besieging the schools.
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. In his June 1974 ruling in Morgan v. Hennigan, Garrity stated that Boston’s de facto school segregation discriminated against black children.
The beginning of forced busing on September 12 was met with massive protests, particularly in South Boston, the city’s main Irish-Catholic neighborhood. Protests continued unabated for months, and many parents, white and black, kept their children at home. In October, the National Guard was mobilized to enforce the federal desegregation order.
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Boston was normal back then.
And so the Battering Ram against White Christian America was unleashed….
Well a lot of people in the south thought it was ironic as hell because the issue was forced upon us dumb hicks years before by yankees.
First blacks in my class was the sixth grade, 1966. Fully intergrated two years later.
Edgecombe County NC.
Had Justice Dept. come to my small town to watch voting up in 1980s.
Yup, I was in the 1st grade that year. I came home and parents were asking and I started crying. I thought they were nasty looking and scary. They were busing them in from several miles away. We were a white enclave and never had really been around any up close.
Little cross-road town that I grew up in was about 80% black, actually lived within about two hundred yards of blacks had known all my life, so it was no big deal. Still is no big deal though where I now live is more sparse, just never trust them completely as they are really capable of anything at anytime. But I can say the same about almost anybody, especially people from New Jersey.