The 1970 desegregation of schools in Boston, Massachusetts was started after the 1965 desegregation of southern schools. Louise Day Hicks of the Boston school committee was against the busing and desegregation of schools in which she stated “… a racially imbalanced school is not educationally harmful.” An examination of these sources will show the significance of this historical event.
In September of 1970 to 1975 the Boston court ordered the Boston public school system to begin busing black students to the white schools. Black schools at the time lacked permanent teachers, basic furniture, supplies, and even books. The schools were in such terrible shape that the books were eaten through by rats, plaster falling off the walls, banisters were broken or falling off and many other problems. The court believed that desegregation was a means to correct explicit and imbedded unfairness of excluding individuals on the base …show more content…
The NAACP argued that black parents would be reluctant to choose schools where all the teachers are white. The NAACP helped black parents bring their complaints to the school committee when Louise Hicks stated that the schools were not inferior. The black parents and NAACP took the Boston school committee to court where Judge W. Arthur Garrity ruled in favor of the parents. He ordered students to be bused city-wide to integrate the schools.
In September, buses carrying the black students are met by enraged white crowds yelling racial slurs and threats. The whites than began to boycott the schools in which the violence persisted inside and outside the school. The desegregation of the schools caused massive amounts of violence to be started. In one account a young white boy hurled a brick into a bus holding numerous black students. This action caused the many whites to attack the students by throwing bricks and other objects into the
In September of 1970 to 1975 the Boston court ordered the Boston public school system to begin busing black students to the white schools. Black schools at the time lacked permanent teachers, basic furniture, supplies, and even books. The schools were in such terrible shape that the books were eaten through by rats, plaster falling off the walls, banisters were broken or falling off and many other problems. The court believed that desegregation was a means to correct explicit and imbedded unfairness of excluding individuals on the base …show more content…
The NAACP argued that black parents would be reluctant to choose schools where all the teachers are white. The NAACP helped black parents bring their complaints to the school committee when Louise Hicks stated that the schools were not inferior. The black parents and NAACP took the Boston school committee to court where Judge W. Arthur Garrity ruled in favor of the parents. He ordered students to be bused city-wide to integrate the schools.
In September, buses carrying the black students are met by enraged white crowds yelling racial slurs and threats. The whites than began to boycott the schools in which the violence persisted inside and outside the school. The desegregation of the schools caused massive amounts of violence to be started. In one account a young white boy hurled a brick into a bus holding numerous black students. This action caused the many whites to attack the students by throwing bricks and other objects into the