Document Type
Research Guide
Abstract
The Moakley Archive and Institute at Suffolk University has many resources that illustrate the controversy surrounding school desegregation in Boston during the 1970s. Boston’s busing crisis was sparked in 1974 with the ruling of Judge Arthur Garrity in the case of Tallulah Morgan et al. v. James Hennigan et al. Garrity ruled that the Boston School Committee had “intentionally brought about and maintained racial segregation” in the Boston Public Schools and he implemented a plan that bused students to different schools to create racial balance. At the time of the ruling, Congressman John Joseph Moakley represented South Boston, one of the neighborhoods most directly affected by the busing plan.
Publication Date
2020
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Recommended Citation
Moakley Archive and Institute, "Busing in Boston: A Research Guide" (2020). Moakley Archive Finding Aids and Research Guides. 14.
https://dc.suffolk.edu/researchguides/14