Audio produced by StoryCorps Studios in partnership with GBH Boston.
In this recording, former Boston student Sheila Wise Rowe speaks to her longtime friend Bill Mooney-McCoy about her memories of the transition from segregated to integrated public schools. Sheila recounts her involvement with the parent-led integration program Operation Exodus, which predated busing, and the consequences of educational inequity in society.
Audio recorded on May 15, 2023 at GBH in Boston.
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