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Letter to Mayor Kevin White from a student in Winthrop, Massachusetts
The 11-year-old student from Winthrop, MA, suggests that Mayor White move the teachers rather than the students.
Letter to Mayor Kevin White from a student in Dorchester
The student attended the Oliver W. Holmes School in Dorchester and is against busing. The student wrote to Mayor White to say that they did not wish to be bused to South Boston the following school year.
Letter to Mayor Kevin White from a student at Canton High School
During the desegregation of Boston public schools Mayor Kevin White received numerous letters, including students in Boston. The student in this letter believes integration is impossible to enforce all at once and suggests that students in the first…
Letter to Mayor Kevin White from 5th grade student
The student wrote a letter to Mayor White listing the reasons why they believed busing to be a bad idea. During the desegregation of Boston public schools Mayor Kevin White received numerous letters, both in support of and against desegregation…
Letter to Louise Day Hicks from Ruth M. Batson
A letter from Ruth Batson, chairman of the Public Education Committee of the NAACP Boston Branch, to Louise Day Hicks, chairman of the Boston School Committee, outlining the discussion points the NAACP would like to make at the August 15th, 1963…
Letter to Judge Garrity from a middle school student
On June 21, 1974, Judge Garrity ruled in a court case that was filed by the NAACP in 1972. He found that racial segregation was present in the Boston school system in all areas of the city, at all grade levels, and in all types of schools. A…
Letter to Judge Garrity from a high school student in Boston
On June 21, 1974, Judge Garrity ruled in a court case that was filed by the NAACP in 1972. He found that racial segregation was present in the Boston school system in all areas of the city, at all grade levels, and in all types of schools. A…
Letter to Judge Garrity from a high school student in Boston
On June 21, 1974, Judge Garrity ruled in a court case that was filed by the NAACP in 1972. He found that racial segregation was present in the Boston school system in all areas of the city, at all grade levels, and in all types of schools. A…
Letter of Response from Mayor Kevin White to Student
Mayor Kevin White responded to Marc's words of wisdom about blacks and whites getting along.
Letter from Newton Public Schools to Ruth M. Batson
Letter from the director of the METCO program in the Newton Public Schools to Ruth M. Batson, wishing her well on her retirement from METCO.