As the wheels of desegregation turned round and round in Corpus Christi, court-ordered busing consumed local educational ...
The year 1974 was a crucible in Boston's history. It was a time marked by violent resistance to the forced desegregation of Boston schools. It's also the backdrop of the 2023 novel "Small Mercies" by ...
Early one morning in September 1970, 5-year-old Kamala Harris walked to the corner of her street to wait for a school bus that would take her up the hills and into the Whiter, wealthier part of ...
In 1975, I started second grade in the Scottsdale neighborhood off New Cut Road in Auburndale. It was the first year of busing, and I was the only child in my neighborhood who went to school on the ...
To Sin Wah Lee’s family, she’s known as a “warrior mom,” someone who fights for her children. Back in the 1970s, Sin Wah Lee and other Chinatown mothers organized a three-day bus boycott at the start ...