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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 Louise Day Hicks, December '75
Letter from Louise Day Hicks to John Joseph Moakley regarding busing and South Boston High receivership; includes news clipping from the Quincy Patriot Ledger "Southie Order Called Illegal", 19 December 1975
Letter from Louise Day Hicks, August '75
Letter from Louise Day Hicks to John Joseph Moakley regarding an anti-busing Wall Street Journal article by Michael Novak, 4 August 1975
Letter from Kentucky
A letter to Mayor Kevin H. White from a high school student at Seneca High School in Kentucky, commending him for his treatment of the "busing situation" in Boston.
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.
Letter From Hicks to Garrity
A letter from Louise Day Hicks, the President of the Boston City Council, to Judge W. Arthur Garrity relating Moody's Investment Service's lowering of Boston's credit rating to Phase II of the Court's busing and desegregation plan.
Letter from Fort Polk, Louisiana
A letter to Mayor Kevin White from a serviceman at Fort Polk, Louisiana who is against forced busing and suggests that teachers be screened by a committee for quality, so that all schools in Boston have the same quality of education for children.
Letter from East Boston
A letter to Mayor Kevin H. White from a mother in East Boston who is against busing and believes the key to an equal education is to move the teachers.
Letter from Dorchester
A letter to Mayor Kevin White from a resident of Dorchester and a student at Boston Latin School who is against busing.
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.