Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-46174 TWO VIEWS OF BUSING BOSTON --
Students at Boston’s Hyde Park High School (top photo) look through a
shattered window of their school bus, damaged when fights broke out between
black and white students at the school. Several students were injured in the
incident, just part of the violence which has marred Boston’s court-ordered
busing plan since the start of the school year. A more peaceful view of
busing is achieved by four Boston students as they discuss school
desegregation efforts with a Charlotte, N.C., student coordinating council
(bottom photo). The four students (foreground left to right), Barbara Steer,
Dana Gonsal, Bob Messina and Linda Lawrence, are members of the Hyde Park
High School biracial committee who were invited to the Southern City by
students to get a look at integration and how it works in Charlotte’s
public high schools, where a massive busing program has been in effect for 10
years. “We’re still working at it every day, and we don’t have any
miracle answers," a Charlotte student told the Boston group. “But what was
a new situation for us 10 years ago is a new situation for you now. And we
want you to know we’ve learned a lot about judging anybody, black or white,
as an individual. It just took time." Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS
SERVICE PHOTO (B-BOS/NC-10D-74-DS)
Creator:
United Press International. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Steer, Barbara., Gonsal, Dana., Messina, Bob., Lawrence, Linda.
Topics:
Busing for school integration--Massachusetts--Boston., Segregation in education--Massachusetts--Boston., School children--Transportation--Massachusetts--Boston., Race relations--Massachusetts--Boston., African American students--Massachusetts--Boston., Students--Massachusetts--Boston.
Geographic subjects:
Boston (Mass.), Hyde Park (Boston, Mass.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361549