How To Desegregate Boston's Schools In The 1970s

In the effort to desegregate Boston's schools in the 70s, white and black students were ordered to take the buses to school. There were protests and riots in result to the busing and whites didn’t show up to school; Many parents left Boston so their kids could go to other schools. Busing of whites and blacks was an issue in other places since the 50s and was finally noticed 20 years later. In 1977, after a black school committee member was elected, the conflict started to settle down. Even 20 years after the Rosa Parks boycott, and this desegregation busing, Boston still remained segregated. To this day, less than 8% of public school children are white. The Jonestown Massacre took place in Guyana on November 18, 1978. This was a mass-suicide