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With new busing curriculum, BPS tackles its own history. But will all students get a chance to learn?

For decades, BPS students have learned more about southern integration battles in schools than they have about Boston's own. Now, the district will roll out new lessons on the city's busing history – but it won’t mandate teaching it.

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Meet the families whose lawsuit forced BPS to integrate

Some of the plaintiffs behind the 1974 decision to desegregate Boston’s schools were shielded from the limelight and never publicly spoke of their reasons for signing on to the lawsuit – until now.

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

The Boston Globe explores the legacy of Boston’s busing era.

Tell us: How has Boston busing affected you or your family?

We want to hear from students of the 70s and beyond.

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They sued Boston’s public schools for better education for Black children. Instead, they got busing.

In their quest for better neighborhood schools for Black children, Earline Pruitt and 13 other families, including 43 children, inadvertently landed at the center of one of the most contentious civil rights battles in Boston’s history.

Today in History: June 20, Queen Victoria takes the throne

Today is Thursday, June 20, the 172nd day of 2024. There are 194 days left in the year.

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At Boston’s independent schools, parents offer their own solutions to city’s education gaps

In the decade before desegregation, schools opened as alternatives for Black students failed by BPS, each formed by residents who had decided to take their children’s education into their own hands.

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Inside the forgotten story of Chinatown mothers who mobilized during the Boston busing crisis

The story of Boston’s busing crisis, the one memorialized in books, films, and podcasts, is typically characterized as a Black and white struggle. What is less known is the story of the Chinese immigrant women who organized a three-day school boycott in 1975 that would change the balance of power in Chinatown for decades to come.