Fifty years after Boston’s ‘busing crisis’
Coverage of the 50th anniversary of a federal judge’s ruling that led to busing in Boston to desegregate schools is produced through an editorial partnership between WBUR and The Emancipator. Illustrations by Sophie Morse.
In June 1974, a judge ruled that the Boston School Committee had willfully segregated Boston Public Schools. The fallout from that decision continues to shape the city today.
The buses we rode every September
A former high school student during the Boston ‘crisis’ looks back and asks: Why?
The Boston ‘busing crisis’ was never about busing
Five decades after the desegregation effort, a civil-rights scholar questions its framing.
The beautiful vision of Boston’s Freedom Schools
Before busing, civil rights thinkers devised a solution for bad education.
How school segregation survived Boston’s busing
Boston schools are more segregated now than they were 30 years ago. Did integration fail, or did the people?
The empty promise of ‘diversity’
From desegregation efforts to DEI, shallow victories keep leaving Black students stranded.
Leola Hampton’s Video essay
