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Alternative Schooling
News report of alternative schools during busing
Hyde Park
Evening Compass clips: 1974-75 - Boston TV News Digital Library
South Boston, 1974
Evening Compass clips: 1974-75 - Boston TV News Digital Library
South Boston High School, 1976
Video of SBHS before the start of the first day of school in 1976, two years after busing began
Boston Unity Day
A flyer promoting "Boston Unity Day", a protest sponsored by "Restore Our Alienated Rights" (ROAR)
Letter from Roanoke, Virginia
A letter to Mayor Kevin H. White from a resident of Roanoke, Virginia who is against busing and integration. She is glad that other cities in the north have to go through "the same as the South had to suffer."
Letter from Denver, Colorado
A letter to Mayor Kevin H. White from a black parent in Denver, Colorado, whose child is being bused to school. She goes on to say that Denver has not experienced violence like Boston because the mayor banned demonstrations against busing.
Letter from Jamaica Plain
A letter to Mayor Kevin H. White from a resident of Jamaica Plain who is against busing students and suggests that to achieve quality education, teachers be sent to different schools.