Photojournalist Ulrike Welsch, Chair of Health Studies at MassBay Community College Denise Garrow-Pruitt, and Photo Editor of The Boston Globe Bill Greene discuss Boston's desegregation efforts in the 1960s, through the lens of many photographs of the times, moderated by Melissa Taboada Editor of the Great Divide Education Team at The Boston Globe.
Bill Greene joined the Boston Globe staff in 1985. Prior to that he was assistant photo editor at the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Born and educated in Germany, Ms. Welsch arrived in 1964 in the USA. In Germany, she was a trained druggist-chemist where she specialized in Photography. In America, she became the first female staff photographer at the Boston Herald Traveler (1966-71) and at the Boston Globe (1971-81).
Melissa Barragán Taboada is the editor of the Globe’s award-winning Great Divide team, which investigates educational inequities in Boston and throughout the state.