This cartoon from the Mass Media, the University of Massachusetts Boston's weekly student newspaper, satirizes the untimeliness of desegregation in Boston by juxtaposing it alongside locations of notable activism during the Civil Rights Movement.
This letter to the Editor of the Boston Globe explains the author's belief that the people of South Boston are behaving in a racist manner. The author explains their position of being for children's choice in any school. The author believes, however,…
Handwritten letter from "concerned parents of three children" to Mayor Kevin White. These parents had lived in South Boston for their entire lives and their parents had even attended school in South Boston. They urged the mayor to support the Home…
Letter to Mayor Kevin White from a Roxbury resident who is upset at South Boston residents. The writer believes that Boston's black community has responded admirably to busing, while the "non-lace curtain Irish" of South Boston have shamed…
This letter is addressed to President Ford, Senators Kennedy and Brooke, Governor Dukakis, Representative Moakley, and Mayor White, all elected representatives of this lawyer from South Boston. The writer expressed a concern for their hometown of…
This letter to Mayor White explains the mother's position against busing for her daughter. The father of the child is black and the mother is white. The mother is afraid that if her daughter is bused to South Boston she will be in danger because of…
This letter to Mayor White describes why the author, a South Boston mother, does not want her children to be bused to the McCormack Middle School on Columbia Point. The mother implores the mayor to read the police blotter from Columbia Point so as to…
This letter to Mayor Kevin White from a South Boston mother of nine children explains the author's anger and disappointment at the prospect of busing children out of their neighborhoods. She had five children graduate from South Boston High School…