Fiasco: The Battle for Boston

The story of the movement to desegregate Boston's public schools through busing-and the backlash that followed.

In 1974, a federal judge ruled that Boston's public schools were unconstitutionally segregated. The solution? A controversial experiment in desegregation known as “busing,” which would take children from majority-white schools and bus them to predominantly Black schools, and vice versa. What followed was a year of upheaval, violence, and fierce protests, as Boston became a battlegr...