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THE BUSING BATTLEGROUND | Chapter 1 | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS

Official website: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/busing-battleground/

On September 12, 1974, police were stationed outside Boston schools as Black and white students were bused for the first time to comply with a federal court desegregation order. Shocking violence, directed mostly at children, ensued. THE BUSING BATTLEGROUND illuminates the volatile effort to end school segregation, and the decades-long struggle for educational equity that preceded the crisis.

Watch THE BUSING BATTLEGROUND live and stream anytime beginning Monday, September 11th at 9/8c on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS App.