Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr.

Boston Busing Crisis Erupts, Northern White Resistance to Desegregation

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Court-ordered school desegregation begins in Boston amid massive white violence and resistance, shattering illusions that Northern cities differ from Southern segregation. Following Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr.’s June 1974 ruling in Morgan v. Hennigan that Boston School Committee …

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