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HS A-85: Thursday, April 19, 2007 “Boston in Crisis”

HS A-85: Thursday, April 19, 2007 “Boston in Crisis”. Preface: Our role as historians not to pass judgment but to try to understand how and why the various actors thought and behaved as they did. Larger contexts to be considered:

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HS A-85: Thursday, April 19, 2007 “Boston in Crisis”

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  1. HS A-85: Thursday, April 19, 2007“Boston in Crisis” • Preface: Our role as historians not to pass judgment but to try to understand how and why the various actors thought and behaved as they did. • Larger contexts to be considered: A. Longstanding conflicts between City of Boston and State of Massachusetts over economic and political control; Boston School Committee as heir to Irish Democratic Curly machine and Racial Imbalance Act seen as one more case of elites using state to control the city B. Boston busing crisis as shaped by Sixties social movements for both sides; for blacks, extension of struggle for civil rights; for whites a model of organizing, protest strategies, and identity politics C. Importance of “Landscape of Mass Consumption” (declining cities and thriving, segregated suburbs) in how Boston school desegregation played out Economic vitality around Route 128, dubbed “Boston’s Road to Segregation” by Mass. State Commission on Discrimination, not available to blacks Millikin v. Bradley Supreme Court decision of 1974 exempted suburbs from participating in desegregation of Detroit-area schools

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