desegregation

Federal judge W. Arthur Garrity, hailed as a hero or denounced as a villain, had no choice but to order the desegregation of Boston’s public schools in 1974 and deploy yellow buses to remedy a wanton violation of the Constitution, legal analysts involved with the epic case say.

MIT Professor Karilyn Crockett was just born the year before federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity ordered the Boston Public Schools to desegregate, but noted her grandmother joined the lawsuit because she felt even the separate but unequal schools back in West Virginia served Black students better.

The city of Boston is approaching a 50-year milestone. We are about to observe  the anniversary of school desegregation.

Powerhouse local artists Danielle Abrams and Mary Ellen Strom come together to explore the desegregation of swimming sites along the United States coast in “Rights Along the Shore,” an exhibition running through May 28 in the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts.

Local education organizers and elected officials gathered Tuesday for the opening of the new headquarters of METCO in Nubian Square and to celebrate a 55-year-long legacy of working to improve diversity and educational opportunities.

METCO has continued to this day, but students enrolled in the program still face challenges of long commutes, limited sleep and social isolation. In order to understand the experiences of METCO students today, three Northeastern journalism students followed a sophomore at Bedford High School for one full school day.