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The 11-year-old student from Winthrop, MA, suggests that Mayor White move the teachers rather than the students.

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…

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…

During the desegregation of Boston public schools Mayor Kevin White received numerous letters, including students in Boston. The student in this letter encourages Mayor White to continue desegregating the schools, calling him "the best mayor we…

D. David Bloom, a Mattapan native, was in third grade during the beginning of desegregation in the Boston public. This interview with Vini Maranan describes his experiences during that time.

This article is published in MOSAIC's Spring 1985 edition. Students look back on their experiences with desegregation in Boston schools and in particular, busing.