This testimony, which predates Judge Garrity’s decision in Morgan v. Hennigan, was given by Congressman Moakley at one of a series of hearings held by Harvard Law School professor Louis Jaffe on the topic of school desegregation in Boston. In his…
This document includes typewritten notes on a phone call that Congressman Moakley had with U.S. Attorney General Edward H. Levi, as well as the handwritten version of the same notes. According to the notes, Moakley placed a telephone call to Attorney…
In this press release, Congressman Moakley expresses his disappointment that a Democratic Caucus vote on forced busing did not pass a measure that, if passed, would have resulted in the recommendation of a constitutional amendment to ban forced…
This press release announces that a Democratic Caucus meeting has been scheduled in Congress “for a recorded vote on forced busing,” which would be the first step towards the passage of a constitutional amendment that would ban forced busing…
This eight-page newsletter, published and distributed by the anti-busing West Roxbury Information Center, is, according to its creators, part of a series of publication that will present “a factual account of busing and its affect [sic] on the…
In this statement, Congressman Moakley testifies before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee that in Boston, “busing to achieve racial balance has had an opposite effect.” He provides enrollment and population statistics to support his argument that…
The specific authors of this statement are unknown, but they identify themselves in the text as “we, the parents of the children of Boston.” In the statement, the writers express their anger over the receivership of South Boston High School, calling…
This press release reports that Congressman Moakley has scheduled a meeting with the chairman of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Courts, Robert Kastenmeier (D-Wisconsin), “regarding the scope of powers of a Federal Judge, with particular…
This memo, from one of Congressman Moakley’s staffers, Jimmy O’Leary, to another, Amy Levy, contains a draft of what is presumably a formal statement from Moakley in response to Judge Garrity’s receivership orders for South Boston High School.…