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Busing Crisis in Boston Boston Busing at 50

Children on the Move - The History of Stark Solutions to Address Inequality in Boston Schools

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With support from: Lowell Institute
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Date and time
Thursday, November 7, 2024
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Susan E. Eaton, in conversation about her book, The Other Boston Busing Story: What’s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line.

METCO, America’s longest-running voluntary school desegregation program, buses children of color from Boston’s city neighborhoods to predominantly white suburban schools. In contrast to the infamous violence and rage that greeted forced school busing within the city in the 1970s, the work of METCO has quietly and calmly promoted school integration. But how has this program affected the lives of its graduates? Would they choose to participate if they had it to do over again? Would they place their own children on the bus to suburbia? In The Other Boston Busing Story, sixty-five METCO graduates who are now adults answer those questions and more, vividly recalling their own stories and assessing the benefits and hardships of crossing racial and class lines on their way to school.

Susan Eaton will be in conversation with Stephanie Leydon, executive producer of digital video at GBH News.

The book talk will be preceded by the screening of the GBH News documentary Never Cried: Boston's Busing Legacy and a talkback with the filmmaker Emily Judem.

More about the film here.

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Susan E. Eaton is the Professor of the Practice and Director of the Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She is the author, most recently, of Integration Nation: Immigrants, Refugees, and America at Its Best (The New Press) and The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial. Her previous titles include The Other Boston Busing Story: What’s Won and Lost Across the Boundary.
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Stephanie Leydon is the executive producer of digital video at GBH News. Feedback? Questions? Story ideas? Reach out to Stephanie at stephanie_leydon@wgbh.org.
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Emily Judem is a senior video producer at GBH News. Feedback? Questions? Reach out to Emily at emily_judem@wgbh.org.
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