The Segregation of the Boston Public Schools (MHS)

Covering the education issues brought by community groups to the Boston School Committee and their negative reaction, the Stay-Outs and Freedom Schools involving 8,000 students on two occasions, passage of the first Racial Imbalance Law in the country in 1965, starting Operation Exodus to transport Black students to vacant seats in better resourced white schools, starting METCO to give some students of color a chance to attend suburban schools, etc. This all led up to Judge Garrity’s desegregation decision in 1974.