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Cynthia Yee, a teacher at the Josiah Quincy School, describes how the 1965 Racial Imbalance Act, which desegregated the public schools in Boston, changed the make-up of her classroom based in Chinatown. Yee describes how the Boston Busing Crisis brought together children from many races: “It was a challenging year because we had to make it all meld. Everybody was new to the situation.” She recalls how some African-American children from Roxbury had never known Chinese people before and how some white families decided to put their children in private schools.

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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, had made race a key issue during the election. It led to the Boston busing crisis involving widespread and violent public protests throughout the city. White won by 12,000 votes and served as mayor of Boston from 1968 to 1984.

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Paula and Robert Wisniewski, residents of Boston, are interviewed by family members about their experiences with the Boston busing crisis: “The kids were being hit with rocks going into the school.” The couple describes why they were opposed to the busing legislation.

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