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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 letter, State Senator Joseph B. Walsh urges Congressman Moakley “to resolve to correct the problems which have developed” as a result of forced busing, in accordance with a resolution recently passed by Louise Day Hicks and the Boston City…

Two representatives of the Columbia Point Health Association at the Columbia Point Housing Project in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood originally sent this letter to Massachusetts Governor Francis Sargent, with a telegram copy (shown here) sent to…

This correspondence includes a telegram sent to Congressman Moakley from anti-busing organization Restore Our Alienated Rights (ROAR), as well as Moakley’s response. In their telegram, the members of ROAR “respectfully demand” that Moakley be present…

This pin was presumably distributed by the anti-busing organization Restore Our Alienated Rights, or ROAR. It depicts a lion on a school bus with the words, "STOP FORCED BUSING."

This list of ten "demands" was created by anti-busing organization Restore Our Alienated Rights, or ROAR. Among other demands, they insist that Boston's representatives in the U.S. Congress address numerous perceived injustices at South Boston High…

This correspondence includes a letter sent to Congressman Moakley from the president of Mass. Citizens Against Forced Busing, Inc, Marianne Procida, as well as Moakley’s response. In her letter, Ms. Procida thanks Moakley for his “strong ant-busing…

This letter from Assistant Attorney General J. Stanley Pottinger of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division is a response to a letter that Moakley sent (of which no copy is available), asking Mr. Pottinger for an update on the Department of…

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.…

This correspondence includes a letter sent to Congressman Moakley from a married couple in Jamaica Plain, as well as Moakley’s response. The couple express their dismay that a congressional bill intended to end forced busing is “tied up in committee”…