school desegregation

“We need more money,” says Milly Arbaje-Thomas about Massachusetts’s only school desegregation program. She’ll visit Beacon Hill this week to ask the legislature to appropriate $33 million for the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity.

Leola Hampton and Linda Stark never talked about it. They never asked each other if they were okay. It’s understandable, given the trauma the sisters endured.

On a wintry morning in 1964, Hubert “Hubie” Jones stood outside bundled in a peacoat, gloves and a fedora, with his toddler son in his arms. Next to him was a school bus with a large banner reading “Newtonites Support Freedom Stayout” in all caps pasted on its side.