50 years later, sisters confront the pain of Boston’s busing crisis
‘Never Cried’: Boston’s Busing Legacy, a short documentary from GBH News, revisits the echoes of Boston’s “busing crisis” and how its legacy of pain still reverberates today.
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A walking tour of Boston's busing history
This map takes you to historic locations behind the desegregation effort and Boston's busing crisis. -
50 years after busing, Boston leaders urge reevaluation of desegregation efforts
Fifty years after Boston's court-ordered busing plan aimed to address racial segregation in public schools, the city continues to deal with its effects. Three panelists emphasized the need to shift focus from busing to investing in quality education within neighborhoods. -
In 1964, Bostonians attempted to desegregate schools in city's 'true civil rights movement'
It was a pivotal but often overlooked year for civil rights in Boston sandwiched between two massively influential court cases regarding school desegregation. -
Two sisters confront their trauma from Boston's busing crisis in new GBH documentary
"Never Cried': Boston's Busing Legacy," a short documentary from GBH News, focuses on the story and childhood trauma of Leola Hampton and her older sister, Linda Starks-Walker. -
50 years ago, Chinese students were an underserved afterthought in Boston's busing crisis
Lawrence Wong vividly recalls the fear and apprehension he felt traveling from Chinatown to the Italian North End. -
Boston’s Black educators were fighting their own battle through desegregation
That era 50 years ago was dominated by resentment and isolation within the district, they say. -
50 years after busing, its legacy remains ambiguous and contested in Boston
People who lived through it and have spent time reflecting on it still part ways on what it meant. -
50 years after desegregation order, how do Boston schools teach it?
A student, teacher, an administrator and a nonprofit leader reflect on how Boston teaches its own tarnished history. -
Boston schools desegregation, then and now: through the eyes of a Black student who survived the 1970s turmoil
Education leaders say Boston's next mayor must relieve the pain and restore trust in the school system.
Additional coverage from GBH
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The Busing Battleground
This American Experience film captures the class tensions and racial violence that ensued when Black and white students in Boston were bused for the first time. -
Pain and Promise: Remembering the Fight for School Integration
American Experience partnered with StoryCorps Studios to record, uplift and archive stories about racial desegregation and educational equity efforts in American schools.
