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Identifier
oh-059
Collection Number
Moakley Oral History Project OH-059
Running Time
00:31:09
Description
In this interview, former Boston School Committee president and Boston city councilor John Nucci reflects on the 1974 Garrity decision, which required some students to be bused between Boston neighborhoods with the intention of creating racial balance in the public schools. He discusses the background of the decision and its impact on the city; why he decided to run for the Boston School Committee; the 1985 court decision to disengage the schools from the federal court and give control back to the school committee; and how race relations have improved in Boston. He concludes by discussing the current state of education in the Boston Public Schools.
Subject Heading
Busing for school integration; Boston (Mass.)--School Committee; Morgan v. Hennigan (379 F. Supp. 410)
Interview Date
2006
Publisher
Suffolk University
Keywords
Busing for school integration, Boston Public Schools, Boston (Mass.)--School Committee, Morgan v. Hennigan Case
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Nucci, John and Tsismenakis, Elias, "Oral history interview with John Nucci (OH-059), audio recording and transcript, 2006" (2006). Moakley Archive Oral History Project. 55.
https://dc.suffolk.edu/moh/55