Boston Public Schools
Busing for school integration
Garrity, W. Arthur (Wendell Arthur), 1920-1999
Race awareness—Massachusetts--Boston
Race relations--History--20th Century
School integration--Massachusetts--Boston
Segregation in education--United States
Description
Students from advanced fourth and fifth grade classes at the M.J. Tobin School in Roxbury shared their concerns about busing. They were afraid that Phase II of forced busing would end advanced classes and this would academically hold back from reaching their potential. This image is from the cover the fourth grade class's book of letters.
Creator
M.J. Tobin School
Source
Mayor Kevin White records, 1929-1999 (Bulk, 1968-1983) Busing: Assorted Material, Box 20, Folder 72
Publisher
Boston City Archives
Date
Circa 1975
Contributor
Beaubrun, Krystle
Rights
This item is made available for research and educational purposes by the Boston City Archives. Rights status is not evaluated.
Relation
Part of the Mayor Kevin H. White records.View the finding aid to the Mayor Kevin H. White records, 1929-1999 (Bulk, 1968-1983) for more related information. For other related materials, see the Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997. Archives and Special Collections, University of Massachusetts Boston. View the finding aid for more information about the collection.
Boston Public Schools
Busing for school integration
Race awareness—Massachusetts--Boston
Race relations--History--20th Century
School integration--Massachusetts--Boston
Segregation in education--United States
Description
Students from an advanced fourth grade class from the M.J. Tobin School share their concerns about busing. They are afraid that they will be bussed to schools that do not have advanced classes and they will be academically held back from reaching their potential. This image is the back cover from the fourth grade class.
Creator
M.J. Tobin School
Source
Mayor Kevin White records, 1929-1999 (Bulk, 1968-1983) Busing: Assorted Materials, Box 20, Folder 72
Publisher
Boston City Archives
Date
Circa 1975
Contributor
Beaubrun, Krystle
Rights
This item is made available for research and educational purposes by the Boston City Archives. Rights status is not evaluated.
Relation
Part of the Mayor Kevin H. White records.View the finding aid to the Mayor Kevin H. White records, 1929-1999 (Bulk, 1968-1983) for more related information. For other related materials, see the Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997. Archives and Special Collections, University of Massachusetts Boston. View the finding aid for more information about the collection.
African Americans--Segregation
Boston (Mass.)
Boston Public Schools
Busing for school integration
Garrity, W. Arthur (Wendell Arthur), 1920-1999.
School integration--Massachusetts--Boston--History
Description
A Mass Card given for the intentions of Judge Garrity. The giver indicates that more men are needed like Garrity.
Creator
[Name Redacted]
Source
Wendell Arthur Garrity papaers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997.
Publisher
University Archives and Special Collections of the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Date
October 1974
Contributor
Illsley, Moriah
Rights
This item is made available for research and educational purposes by the University of Massachusetts Boston. Rights status is not evaluated. Copyright information for UMass Boston is available online.
Relation
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997. See the finding aid for more related materials.
Format
PDF (Computer file format)
Language
English
Type
Letter
Identifier
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997, Series LXVIII, Correspondence, 1973-1994, Box 49, Folder 6.
Letter to Judge W. Arthur Garrity , October 27, 1974
Subject
African Americans--Segregation
Boston (Mass.)
Boston Public Schools
Busing for school integration
Garrity, W. Arthur (Wendell Arthur), 1920-1999
School integration--Massachusetts--Boston--History
Description
This letter is offering support to Judge W. Arthur Garrity. The author is pleased the Garrity is standing firm against abuse from people who are anti-busing and believes that decision was long over due.
Creator
[Name Redacted]
Source
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1672-1997.
Publisher
University Archives and Special Collections of the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Date
October 27, 1974
Contributor
Illsley, Moriah
Rights
This item is made available for research and educational purposes by the University of Massachusetts Boston. Rights status is not evaluated. Copyright information can be found online at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Relation
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997. See the finding aid for more related materials.
Format
PDF (Computer file format)
Language
English
Type
Letter
Identifier
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997, Series LXVIII, Correspondence, 1973-1994, Box 49, Folder 9.
A letter to Judge W. Arthur Garrity, November 6, 1974
Subject
African Americans--Segregation
Boston (Mass.)
Boston Public Schools
Busing for school integration
Garrity, W. Arthur (Wendell Arthur), 1920-1999.
School integration--Massachusetts--Boston--History
Description
In this letter, the author is very happy that Judge Garrity is finally forcing the city to integrate. The author does not agree with busing, but recognizes it as a means to a very important ends.
Creator
[Name Redacted]
Source
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997.
Publisher
University Archives and Special Collections of the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Date
November 6, 1974
Contributor
Illsley, Moriah
Rights
This item is made available for research and educational purposes by the University of Massachusetts Boston. Rights status is not evaluated. Copyright information can be found online at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Relation
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997. See the finding aid for more related materials.
Format
PDF (Computer file format)
Language
English
Type
Letter
Identifier
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997, Series LXVIII, Correspondence, 1973-1994, Box 49, Folder 10.
A letter to Judge W. Arthur Garrity, December 17, 1974.
Subject
African Americans--Segregation
Boston (Mass.)
Boston Public Schools
Busing for school integration
Garrity, W. Arthur (Wendell Arthur), 1920-1999.
School integration--Massachusetts--Boston--History
Description
This letter offers Judge Garrity support and explains that the author has been in several school systems during integration. The author believes that the only way to to get over irrational fear it is to sit down and converse with the other race.
Creator
[Name Redacted]
Source
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997.
Publisher
University Archives and Special Collections of the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Date
December 17, 1974
Contributor
Illsley, Moriah
Rights
This item is made available for research and educational purposes by the University of Massachusetts Boston. Rights status is not evaluated. Copyright information for the University of Massachusetts Boston archives is available online.
Relation
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997. See the finding aid for more related materials.
Format
PDF (Computer file format)
Language
English
Type
Letter
Identifier
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997, Series LXVIII, Correspondence, 1973-1994, Box 49, Folder 13.
A letter to Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr., December 17, 1974.
Subject
African Americans--Segregation
Boston (Mass.)
Boston Public Schools
Busing for school integration
Garrity, W. Arthur (Wendell Arthur), 1920-1999.
School integration--Massachusetts--Boston--History
Description
This letter tells Judge Garrity that many people agree with him and are on his side although they are silent. He also encloses a patriotic letter he wrote to his local paper about desegregation.
Creator
[Name Redacted]
Source
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997.
Publisher
University Archives and Special Collections of the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Date
December 17, 1974
Contributor
Illsley, Moriah
Rights
This item is made available for research and educational purposes by the University of Massachusetts Boston. Rights status is not evaluated. Copyright information for the University of Massachusetts Boston Archives and be found online.
Relation
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997. See the finding aid for more related materials.
Format
PDF (Computer file format)
Language
English
Type
Letter
Identifier
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997, Series LXVIII, Correspondence, 1973-1994, Box 49, Folder 13.
Boston (Mass.)
Boston Public Schools
Busing for school integration
Garrity, W. Arthur (Wendell Arthur), 1920-1999
School integration--Massachusetts--Boston--History
Description
Letter to Judge Garrity from concerned Dorchester resident, who wrote that the School Committee was "not supplying buses for the children" in her area. She asked him if her community could "either have the buses for transfers back to the [redacted] school for our children."
Creator
Name Redacted
Source
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997.
Publisher
University Archives and Special Collections of the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Date
September 5, 1974
Contributor
Maranan, Vini
Rights
This item is made available for research and educational purposes by the University of Massachusetts Boston. Rights status is not evaluated. Copyright information can be found online at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Relation
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997. View the finding aid for more related materials.
Letter to Judge Garrity from Jamaica Plain Resident
Subject
Boston (Mass.)
Boston Public Schools
Garrity, W. Arthur (Wendell Arthur), 1920-1999
School integration--Massachusetts--Boston--History
Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States--History
Description
Letter from Jamaica Plain resident, who complained that "colored" people "changed the face of Roxbury."
Creator
Name Redacted
Source
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997.
Publisher
University Archives and Special Collections of the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Date
October 5, 1974
Contributor
Maranan, Vini
Rights
This item is made available for research and educational purposes by the University of Massachusetts Boston. Rights status is not evaluated. Copyright information can be found online at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Relation
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997. View the finding aid for more related materials.
Format
PDF (Computer file format)
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
Garrity 02_Redacted.pdf
Text Item Type Metadata
Text
[Redacted]
Jamaica Plain, Mass, 02130
Oct. 5, 1974
Judge Arthur Garrity
Federal Court House
Boston, Mass
Dear Judge,
I partially agree with the people in South Boston about not wanting the colored in their schools because I have seen first hand how their (the blacks) presence changed the face of Roxbury. I am not talking about all of Roxbury, since I don’t know it first-hand but about Mission Hill, section of Roxbnury which I know very well since I lived on Mission Hill for eighteen years and in the project behind Mission Church for the next ten. I never saw or heard before what I did once the colored people moved in. I myself was held up and assaulted by them four times, the first of which required hospitalization. I begged my mother to move out of that section after this first incident but she was so attached to Mission Church that she refused. (Maybe I was more attached because Mission Grammar and High School had helped an awful lot in bringing me up but I know I had the character to face the present situation regardless of how much it meant to me) It got increasingly worse until finally a lot of businesses moved out and Whiting Milk Co. refused to let their men deliver on Mission Hill because their men were continually assaulted and robbed. So I can understand South Boston’s plight now. They (the colored people) made a hell-hole of Mission Hill so let them stay there. It was fine before they came.
African Americans--Segregation
Boston (Mass.)
Boston Public Schools
Garrity, W. Arthur (Wendell Arthur), 1920-1999
School integration--Massachusetts--Boston--History
Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States--History
Description
Letter from Mattapan resident who congratulated Judge Garrity for his court decision.
Creator
Name Redacted
Source
Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr. papers on the Boston Schools, Desegregation Case, 1972-1997.
Publisher
University Archives and Special Collections of the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Date
October 8, 1974
Contributor
Maranan, Vini
Rights
This item is made available for research and educational purposes by the University of Massachusetts Boston. Rights status is not evaluated. Copyright information can be found online at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Relation
Wendell Arthur Garrity papers on the Boston Schools Desegregation Case, 1972-1997. View the finding aid for more related materials.