Premieres Monday, Sept. 11, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encores Wednesday, Sept. 13 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 16 at 6 a.m. and Noon on KPBS 2. 'The Busing Battleground' viscerally captures the class tensions and racial violence that ensued when Black and white students in Boston were bused for the first time between neighborhoods to comply with a federal desegregation order.
, a mother and head of the local NAACP’s education committee, began documenting the differences between majority Black and white schools. They reported that Black children were taught in the oldest school buildings, the most overcrowded classrooms, and by the most inexperienced teachers.
On June 11, 1963—the day President John Kennedy gave a historic Civil Rights speech on national television saying civil rights was a—Batson presented her findings to the all-white Boston School Committee and demanded its members acknowledge de facto segregation in Boston’s public schools. The committee, headed by South Boston lawyer“It ignited a movement.
In 1965, in response to the inaction of the school committee and chastened by a visit to Boston by Martin Luther King, Jr., the Massachusetts legislature passed the Racial Imbalance Act. The law required school districts to ensure their schools were racially balanced. Yet, year after year, the Boston School Committee refused to comply. In 1972, the NAACP filed a lawsuit on behalf of 14 Black parents and their children, charging the committee with deliberately segregating the public schools.
The decision put the city on edge. Though some Black parents applauded the judge’s ruling, others would have preferred improved schools in their communities. Many white parents took to the streets in protest.
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