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Busing & Desegregation Forty Years Later

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• “Can We Talk? Learning from Boston’s Busing/Desegregation Crisis” an hour-long documentary examining, in residents’ own voices, how 1970s busing still affects black, brown, and white residents today. Part of a larger project, The Boston Busing/Desegregation Project, sponsored by the Union of Minority Neighborhoods.

• "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1985," Episode 21: School Desegregation in Boston, 1974. "If segregation ended 60 years ago, how come it's getting worse?" Evan Horwitz, The Boston Globe, May 19, 2014. 

• Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s, Ronald P. Formisano. A social history of the era.

• On Common Ground, J. Anthony Lukas.

• "All Souls: A Family Story from Southie," Michael Patrick MacDonald. A memoir that offers a searing and intimate view of the era.

• "Southie Won't Go: A Teacher's Diary of the Desegregation of South Boston High School," Ione Malloy.

• Boston Busing/Desegregation Project, expanding our view of that period and linking it to Boston’s present.

• Suffolk University’s oral history archives on Boston busing.

• Emerson College’s Boston Busing Project.