Fifty years ago Sept. 12, the first school buses rolled through Boston as part of a federal judge’s order to desegregate the Boston schools; an initiative often known as busing. For the past three ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the North’s worst episode of school desegregation–related racial violence: Boston’s busing riots. Mobs hurled rocks at buses filled with black students newly ...

BOSTON – Fifty years to the day since yellow school buses first rolled Boston toward a desegregated future, some of the players from the era’s historic events returned to the scene and revisited how ...

Fifty years to the day since yellow school buses first rolled Boston toward a desegregated future, some of the players from the era’s historic events returned to the scene and reminisced about how ...

The origins of "anti-busing" politics : from New York protests to the Civil Rights Act -- Surrender in Chicago : cities' rights and the limits of federal enforcement of school desegregation -- Boston ...

Fifty years after Boston’s court-ordered busing plan was implemented to desegregate the city’s public schools, Boston continues to grapple with the fallout of the controversial decision. For Kim Janey ...

BOSTON — Fifty years to the day since yellow school buses first rolled Boston toward a desegregated future, some of the players from the era's historic events returned to the scene and reminisced ...

Outside of the Boston Celtics’ two NBA titles, the 1970s marked a dark decade in the city’s history. The Boston desegregation busing crisis led to a series of racial protests and violent riots that ...