50 years: Boston’s busing legacy holds lessons for the future

By Mary Deng

In the lobby of the Community Academy of Science and Health, student artwork celebrating Black history decorates the walls.

It was formerly the grounds of the Grover Cleveland Middle School, one of the first four schools that became integrated in 1967.

It has been 50 years since Judge W. Arthur Garrity ruled in a landmark case in favor of integrating schools by busing children into historically Black or white neighborhoods.

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50 years: Boston's busing legacy holds lessons for the future

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