Donald Wong, a South Ender who was bused to Charlestown, shares his story of busing – fifty years since the desegregation order took effect in September 1974. A school bus carrying only a few ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Children at the Lewenberg School in Mattapan studied outdated curricula in a run-down building. Teachers ran out of paper. Bathroom stalls were missing doors. In the spring of 1974, district officials ...