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=Boston Bus Crisis:=

In 1965 Boston schools had been segregated based off of the neighborhood you lived in. Schools for the African American children had lacked teachers, basic furniture, supplies, and most importantly books. The parents of these children started to become furious with the way that the Boston School Committee ran the show. Women named Louise Day Hicks said "the schools are not inferior." (1) The parents of these children fought for years within their community to help improve their children's education but when everything failed they took the school committee to court. On June 21, 1974 the judge W.Arthur Garrity of the federal district ruled in favor of the parents. W. Arther Garrittold the court that there the school committee would have to continue to maintained two separate school systems, except this time the students would be bused city-wide to integrate the schools.



The black communities of Roxbury, less then a mile apart form, the white community of South Boston were to integrate their schools. These meant that some of the black children would have to take the bus from their part of town to the white schools in South Boston. In September of the next fall buses filled with black students headed to their school in the community. However the school was hidden behind the angry crowds of white people lashing out with violence and yelling racial slurs at the students. The white parents formed together to stage a boycott and all of their children were pulled out of school. Matters did not start to improve until Louise Day Hicks was unseated and a member of the black committee was elected in 1977 (Boston Bus Video). [|The Boston Bus Crisis]