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Boston Busing Crisis
Kevin White on Almost Losing to Anti-Busing Candidate

  By Virginia Choi • September 9, 2014 Uncategorized
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Former mayor of Boston, Kevin White, talks about almost losing in the 1967 general election to Louise Day Hicks, a Boston School Committee member who was anti-desegregation and “anti-black.” The 1965 Racial Imbalance Act, which desegregated the public schools in Boston via court-ordered busing of children into different neighborhood schools, … Continue reading