Abstract
Boston black leaders, exasperated with delays over compliance with the Racial Imbalance Act, filed a class action suit in federal court against the Boston School Committee in 1972. The Boston School Committee meanwhile tried to repeal the Racial Imbalance Law, opposing racial integration of schools in the loudest of voices.
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Jack Flannery, The Sargent Years: Public Papers 1969–1975 (Boston, 1976) is the official record of Governor Francis Sargent. The author served in Governor Sargent’s cabinet as secretary of educational affairs (1971–75).
Robert Dentler and Marvin Scott, Schools on Trial (Cambridge, 1981), 14, 77.
Alan Lupo, Liberty’s Chosen Home (Boston, 1977) and interview with Robert Schwartz, education aide to Mayor White, February 2004.
Jon Hillson, The Battle for Boston (New York, 1977), 21 and Formisano, Boston against Busing, 114.
Pamela Bullard and Judith Stoia, The Hardest Lesson (Boston, 1980).
William Bratton, Turnaround (New York, 2000), 67, 76.
South Boston was also dangerous at times. Michael MacDonald, All Souls (Boston, 2000) on South Boston drugs and crime,
and Richard Lehr and Gerald O’Neill, Black Mass (New York, 2001) on FBI collusion with South Boston criminals.
Robert Coles, with Carol Baldwin, The Buses Roll (New York, 1974), 27, 28.
Robert C. Wood, “Professionals at Bay: Managing Boston’s Public Schools,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 1, No. 4, 1982, 454–468.
United States Census 1980 and George V. Higgins, Style versus Substance: Kevin White and the Politics of Illusion (New York, 1984), 27.
James E. Glinski, “The Catholic Church and the Desegregation of Boston’s Public Schools,” The New England Journal of Public Policy, Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer/Fall 1988, 65–84.
Ralph Edwards and Charles Willie, Black Power, White Power in Public Education (Westport, CT, 1998), 52, 53.
Susan Eaton, The Other Boston Busing Story (New Haven, 2001), 8.
Gary Orfield. Must We Bus? (Washington. DC. 1978). 144. 145.
Eric Dolin, Political Waters (Amherst, MA, 2004) on the court-ordered cleanup of Boston Harbor.
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Cronin, J.M. (2008). The Court Orders Reforms (1974–89). In: Reforming Boston Schools, 1930 to the Present. Palgrave Studies in Urban Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230611092_6
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