Boston Bombing Effect

Boston Busing and It’s Long Term Effect In an attempt to desegregate the Boston Public Schools, the Massachusetts Supreme Court decided to bus students from white schools to black schools and vice versa, but unfortunately all it did was create protest and riots based on race in the 1970s. There were many problems that contributed to the Boston Busing Plan that made it completely ineffective. From the start of the desegregation process there was nothing but chaos, most importantly how the School Committee, the Superintendent, the Board of Education in the Commonwealth and the individuals within the organization handled the problems that were happening in the schools in the city of Boston. The schools were unequal in so many ways, prior
In the article, “Did Busing Slow Boston’s Desegregation by Farah Stockman it explains the different outrageous events that occurred during the Boston Busing Plan, she states, “Junior’s family moved away, along with nearly every other black family in Maverick. The Swans, whose entire apartment burned. The Carnes, who had a Molotov cocktail crash through their little girls’ bedroom window. The Hornes, whose kitchen windows had been broken with baseball bats” (Stockman,2015). Whites only got their point across through violence. They just attacked showing that they hate in away that is indescribable if once before whites and black got along. Before the Busing Plan many whites and blacks worked well with one another but after it has happened it hasn’t solved the problems within the schools but also what is happening outside the schools. Relationships were broken, and many families left their homes. Uniquely it shows the Busing Plan and how ineffective it benefited the lives of blacks and whites. That nothing has changed, segregation continued to happen in the schools and even in their
Many might claim that change did happen, it lead to the first black leader of the School Committee, the School Committee lost its power and the whites and blacks finally integrated, however it didn't impact Boston the best it could have. We have to look at the bigger picture. Did anything really change? The Boston Busing Plan continued to drive the whites out of the city of Boston. Even though we can claim that there has been a change but as we look at past and even the present you can see blacks were so confined to staying with their black peers and the same thing for whites. Just because we had the first black leader it didn’t change the fact that whites were leaving the the city. Also the School Committee losing power didn’t change how ineffective the Boston Busing Plan was as judge Garrity said himself that the plan needed more time. Additionally having whites and blacks integrate didn’t change the fact the students, families and neighborhoods was being hurt and mistreated. Overall the Boston Busing Plan has done nothing to help what many people wanted, the integration. Yes there were positive changes but it doesn’t mean that there were actually changes within the