By Sebastien P CBlock 31213 Next The Boston Busing Crisis Description During the mid 1900sthe Boston Schooling System assigned students to schools based on where they lived Schools in primarily white areas such as South Boston and Charlestown had a mostly white students while schools ID: 180210
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The Boston Busing Crisis
By: Sebastien P.C-Block3-12-13
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The Boston Busing Crisis Description
During the mid 1900s,the Boston Schooling System assigned students to schools based on where they lived. Schools in primarily white areas such as South Boston and Charlestown had a mostly white students, while schools in black areas such as Roxbury had an overwhelming black majority.
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The Boston Busing Crisis Facts
During the 19th century, Boston had become the birthplace and the center of the abolitionist movement.During the 20th century, Boston had split into fifteen diverse neighborhoods that were home to many people from different racial backgrounds.During the early 20th century, the people of Boston tended to stay within their own neighborhoods in order to avoid racial confrontation
In South Boston protestors stoned buses, shouted racial things, and threw eggs and rotten tomatoes.
Nine black South Boston High School students were injured when angry whites shattered the windows of their buses.
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The Boston Busing Crisis Facts
On October 7th a black man named Andre Yvonne Jean-Louis was severely beaten when he drove into South Boston to pick up his wife. This time the black Roxbury students reacted by stoning cars and attacking passing whites. On December 11, a black student at South Boston High School stabbed a white classmate. Many white families planned a boycott of public schools by sending their& children to private and parochial schools.
The results of the Boston Busing incident polarized the community and displayed the underlying racism that existed in society as well as made strides toward equality for minorities in the city.
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The Boston Busing Crisis Quiz
True or False all parents with kids in Boston Public Schools supported Busing as a method for desegregation.The ruling in the Brown v Board of Education was decided in what year?
A.
1956
B.
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954
C.
1950
The Boston Busing Crisis led to all of the following except?
A.
Violence in schools between black and white students
B.
Drew attention to the racial segregation in Boston
C. Schools were racially balanced between black and white students
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The Boston Busing Crisis Quiz
How did the people of Boston react to Senator Kennedy's position on Busing? A. Supported Kennedy's views B. They wrote a letter to Kennedy about how he was wrong to support busing
C.
They did not care about Kennedy's views
D.
T
hey were outraged and showed their anger through insults and harassment
NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
A.
T
rue
B.
False
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The Boston Busing Crisis Works Cited
www.wbur.org
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