Broken window at the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Boston on Sept. 9 after Senator Edward M. Kennedy was booed off the stage during a speech...
Seen in an aerial view, "Never Resist" is written a few yards down from South Boston High School on G Street in Boston, Mass. On Sept. 8 during the...
Boston police officer talks with students from Dorchester who were riding the school bus that was stoned at Preble Circle in South Boston on Sept....
Two students look out the window of a school bus as they wait before being admitted to South Boston High School in Boston on Jan. 8, 1975. An...
Two young men hold protest signs outside South Boston High School in Boston, Mass. On Sept. 12 the first day of school under the new busing system...
View of students as they leave the Christopher Gibson School en masse, in the Dorchester neighborhood, Boston, Massachusetts, September 6, 1968. Amid...
Plainclothes Boston police officer, left, questions a woman with signs on her car that read, "KKK Thursday" and "Welcome to black Russia," near Hyde...
Boston, MA Black protesters picketing against Boston school segregation in Boston, August 07, 1963. The protesters are holding signs that read:...
Michael Kennedy of 38 Humboldt Ct., boards a school bus for a Brighton school in Boston on Sept. 3, 1969. Operation Exodus, a voluntary busing...
The Anti-Racist Coalition, a pro-busing group, holds a rally near Park Street in Boston on Sept. 21, 1974. An initiative to desegregate Boston Public...
An anti-busing group holds a protest on Boston Common across from the Mass. State House in Boston on April 3, 1973. The Racial Imbalance Act was...
Group protests at the Mass. State House in Boston on March 21, 1972. The Racial Imbalance Act was passed in 1965, and, as a result, a plan to bus...
Police officers, inside top center, watch above the crowd as Roy Wilkins, of the NAACP, not pictured, gives a press conference at 2 p.m. In Columbia...
Albert "Dapper" O'Neil was an outspoken opponent of the federal court order to desegregate Boston's public schools. In September 1974 he inspects a...
Man inspects the scene after a stone was thrown through the window of a school bus carrying students from Dorchester as it drove through Preble...
Catherine Tab protests the closing of her children's school, Ira Allen School, in Boston on March 29, 1974. The Racial Imbalance Act was passed in...
Large crowd gathers in South Boston's Columbus Park to protest federal court-ordered busing of black students to all-white neighborhood schools,...
Group of Ku Klux Klan impersonators carry a large cross as they walk past the Old Colony housing project on Columbia Road in Boston on Sept. 18,...
Boston, MA- As police stand guard, Black students arrive at the predominately all White South Boston high school, thousands of boston School children...
Police hold back a crowd as a school bus drives by in South Boston on Sept. 12 the first day of school under the new busing system put in place to...
Two boys throw objects at a bus carrying black students through Edward Everett Square in Dorchester on Sept. 12 the first day of school under the new...
Jean-Louis Andre Yvon stands in the center of a street in South Boston, surrounded by a group of white men and women, on Oct. 7, 1974. Yvon was...
Students with Operation Exodus board a bus at Blue Hill Avenue and Columbia Road in Roxbury headed to E.P. Tileston Elementary School in Mattapan on...
Bused black schoolchildren arrive with police escort at South Boston High School during court-ordered desegregation crisis, South Boston,...
Crowd watches as a bus carrying students returns to Columbia Point with broken windows on Sept. 12 the first day of school under the new busing...
Students sit on a bus going from Columbia Point to Roxbury High School on Sept. 13 the second day of school under the new busing system put in place...
Large crowd gathers in South Boston's Columbus Park to protest federal court-ordered busing of black students to all-white neighborhood schools,...
An antibusing "Mothers March" stops for a prayer at the junction of River Street and Hyde Park Avenue in Boston on Sep. 12, 1975. New bus route...
Students enter a school in South Boston on the first day of federally imposed desegregation on Sep. 12, 1974. Twenty-thousand students have been...
Black students wait to board buses on River Street in Mattapan after walking out of Hyde Park High School in Boston on the morning of April 11, 1978....
Students are attentive in a seventh grade classroom on the first day of the school year at the Mary E. Curley School in Boston, Mass. On Sept. 8,...
School bus carrying only a few occupants travels along Austin Street in Charlestown on Sept. 9 during the first week of school. An initiative to...
Drivers of two damaged buses speak with police officers on Morrissey Boulevard in Boston on May 3, 1975. The buses were chartered by Progressive...
Crowd of antibusing demonstrators storm up East Sixth Street in South Boston armed with rocks and clubs on Feb. 15, 1976. A demonstration erupted...
Two students wait on a school bus before being admitted to South Boston High School in Boston on Jan. 8, 1975. An initiative to desegregate Boston...
Police officers scuffle with someone on the ground outside Hyde Park High School in Boston, Mass. On Sept. 24, 1976. An initiative to desegregate...
James Norman, right, waits with his nieces Carica Etwoods, left, and Reca Norman, center, to be picked up by school buses in Mattapan on Oct. 9,...
Children arrive by school bus at the Joseph Lee Elementary School in Dorchester on Sept. 22, 1971. Since the new school is located in a predominantly...
Two teens impersonating Ku Klux Klan members, dressed in white sheets and pointed hoods, walk down Dorchester Street near Old Colony Avenue in Boston...
Person holds a baby up to the window of a car, during an anti-busing motorcade on Broadway in South Boston on Sept. 7, 1974. A sign on the side of...
Police try to control the crowd outside South Boston High School in Boston on Sept. 12 on the first day of school under the new busing system put in...
Demonstrators with the Progressive Labor Party protesting the anti-busing movement hold up signs that read, "Black and white UNITE for better...
An Operation Exodus bus arrives at Patrick O'Hearn Elementary School in Boston on Sept. 9, 1971. In order to racially balance the new Joseph Lee...
David Patterson and Chris Russell reflect on the first day of school as they ride from McKay School in East Boston on Sept. 5, 1979. An initiative to...
Marchers Support National March; Marchers hold a huge banner as they lead the way for about 120 per- ions who walked from East High School, 1545...
Large crowd gathers in South Boston's Columbus Park to protest federal court-ordered busing of black students to all-white neighborhood schools, 1975.
An angry-looking man in faux-colonial attire carries an American flag in South Boston's Columbus Park at a march to protest federal court-ordered...
Anti-busing protestors line a street to demonstrate against forced busing of students into formerly all-white South Boston schools, September 1974.
Boston, MA Hubert Jones watches Newton Students leave for the Freedom Schools on buses in Newton, MA on Feb. 26, 1964. Sponsored by the Massachusetts...
Police stand on the roof of a high school during the first day of busing desegregation in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Sept. 8, 1975.
Marchers Support National March Marchers hold a huge banner as they lead the way for about 120 per- ions who walked from East High School, 1545...
Ted Landsmark speaks during a press conference at Harriet Tubman Hall in Boston on Apr. 7, 1976. Landsmark was beaten by white antibusing...
Crowd stands on top of a Boston Police cruiser in front of South Boston High School on Dec. 11, 1974. A clash between police and a crowd of 1500...
Boston Police officers flip a police cruiser back over after it was overturned by a crowd during a disturbance at South Boston High School on Dec....
Jean-Louis Andre Yvon, right, runs down Dorchester Street in South Boston being pursued by a man wielding a weapon on Oct. 7, 1974. Yvon was trying...
Mayor Kevin White takes notes as court-appointed integration experts Marvin Scott and Robert Dentler, and Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr.'s aide Stephen...
Mounted police officers try to control the crowd after a riot broke out outside South Boston High School on Dec. 11, 1974. The clash between police...
Police and members of the press are nearby as students and buses leave South Boston High School on Sept. 8, 1977. An initiative to desegregate Boston...
Group of women wait for the police wagon as they are apprehended after incidents at South Boston High School on May 13, 1977. An initiative to...
Close-up of a handmade slingshot used near South Boston High School on Sept. 16, 1976. An initiative to desegregate Boston Public Schools was...
