Testimony of Joe Moakley at the Jaffe Hearings

Testimony of Joe Moakley at the Jaffe Hearings

Boston (Mass.)
Boston Public Schools
Busing for school integration
Jaffe, Louis Leventhal
Moakley, John Joseph, 1927-2001

This testimony, which predates Judge Garrity’s decision in Morgan v. Hennigan, was given by Congressman Moakley at one of a series of hearings held by Harvard Law School professor Louis Jaffe on the topic of school desegregation in Boston. In his testimony, Moakley describes the “seven grounds” on which he opposes the desegregation plan in question, which was developed by the director of Massachusetts’ Bureau of Equal Educational Opportunity, Charles Glenn, and which called for forced busing, specifically in South Boston and Roxbury. Moakley closes his testimony by stating, “I am 100% committed to integration: but I am also 100% against forced busing. And, believe it or not, that’s a perfectly consistent position.”

Moakley, John Joseph

Congressman John Joseph Moakley Papers, 1926-2001 (MS100)
Series 08.02 Speeches: Noncongressional Speeches, Box 1 Folder 9

John Joseph Moakley Archive & Institute at Suffolk University, Boston, Mass.

March 23, 1973

Kintz, Laura

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