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Identifier
oh-039
Collection Number
Moakley Oral History Project OH-039
Running Time
00:45:06
Description
Mr. Anthony Voto reflects on his experiences growing up in East Boston, Massachusetts, following the 1974 Garrity decision, which required students to be bused between Boston neighborhoods with the intention of creating racial balance in the public schools. Mr. Voto discusses his childhood in East Boston; his experiences attending a magnet school; the appreciation for different cultures and people that he gained from attending a school with a diverse student body; and the positive impact that he feels the results of the Garrity decision had on the Boston Public Schools.
Subject Heading
Busing for school integration; East Boston (Boston, Mass.); Magnet schools--Massachusetts
Interview Date
2005
Publisher
Suffolk University
Keywords
Busing for school integration, East Boston
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Voto, Anthony and Cain, Jared, "Oral history interview with Anthony Voto (OH-039), audio recording and transcript, 2005" (2005). Moakley Archive Oral History Project. 38.
https://dc.suffolk.edu/moh/38