It's Us, Not the Bus | Boston's School Desegregation Story
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2019
- Last fall marked the 40th anniversary of court ordered integration of Boston's public schools. The events, commonly known as the "Boston Busing Crisis," are remembered for all the wrong reasons--rash implementation, heavy handed-government, and above all else, violence. Forgotten is the larger historical perspective of African American activism that brought the desegregation movement to national attention and continued the struggle when the cameras were turned off. This is their story.
The film was written, produced, directed, shot, and edited by Charlie Manclark. It premiered in April, 2016 at the Boston International Film Festival where it won a Special Recognition Prize in Documentary Filmmaking.
As a school bus driver from day one of the bussing till the end of school year 1978 in Boston I witnessed the systematic concealment of the violence against Black kids. NBC News was to ride my bus since I had the main route from Roxbury High to G St annex in South Boston in September 1974. They removed me from that route a week before, installing a brand new hire. What were they concealing?
All children should go to the nearest school to their homes, Regardless of colour, The time moving children to and from school is madness.
Almost 50 years since, countless news specials, documentaries, interviews etc.etc.etc., and this is the first time I've heard about the huge numbers of Caucasian children ALREADY being bused before the 1974 school year.
the kids suffered for bad government policy that allowed segregated neighborhoods to exist in the first place.
What matters most is academic achievement.
I’m from Roxbury. It was about race. They didn’t hide that at all.
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Black brothers and sisters have had it hard for 400 dam years in this country and we still catching hell
Crazy. Whats funny is several of the Irish kids that grew up during those times, I knew them, even the Kennedy family said their mother would put them in closet as punishment. I met others who werent from Boston whose mother did the same thing. I think it was a common form of punishment in certain areas. Of course their caretakers didnt forget about them and leave them in the closet. I think there are some racists, but most of it was cultural. People want their children to go to school with those who share their culture and values. Thats where private schools have to come in.
one sided
What matters is academic achievement.
I don’t think I can finish this. It’s become obvious that they’re telling a one-sided story, and I won’t get a full picture of the history.
So one program that doesn’t completely center the black experience, and it’s a problem 🙄
What matters most is academic achievement.