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Educational segregation in Boston, 1974

In 1974, mass protests and racial violence broke out across Boston in response to a federal government ruling that schools should be desegregated.

The worst of the violence centred around the bussing of black students from the ghetto of Roxbury Boston to two formally white high schools, one in south Boston and the other in the suburb of Hyde Park. Mobs stoned buses and cars, and within a week, the police had made over 50 arrests.

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