Some 18,000 black and white students were ordered to take buses to schools outside of their neighborhoods. The remedy to achieve racial balance and desegregate schools was busing. Arthur Garrity ruled that the Boston School Committee had deliberately segregated the city’s schools, creating one system for blacks and another for whites - separate, unequal and unconstitutional. Then, classes began a week late to give students, schools and the police extra time to prepare for the first day of court-ordered desegregation.Įarlier that summer of 1974, federal District Court Judge W. (AP)īOSTON - With Boston public school students back in class, we recall a very different start to school 40 years ago. 12, 1974 - the first day of school and the first day of court-ordered busing. African-American students board a school bus outside South Boston High School on Sept. Note: Report contains some offensive language.
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