South Boston High School, Parents and Kids, 12/12/1975

The collection comprises 86 black and white photographs from 1905 to 1976. The bulk of the photographs are from 1974 to 1976. The collection documents the people involved and affected by Judge Garrity's 1974 decision to desegregate Boston public schools by means of forced busing. It also documents events and reactions surrounding public school integration in Hyde Park, South Boston, and Charlestown in the mid-1970s. Most of the photographs depict anti-busing protests and marches, parents demonstrating around Boston and in Washington, D.C., and police. There are images of students in class and outside Hyde Park, Charlestown, and South Boston High Schools. There are also four photographs of Boston school buildings from 1905 to 1954.

The collection is arranged chronologically. Most of these photographs are copyrighted by the Boston Globe, the Herald, or the Associated Press (AP) Wire, and many of them were published. The titles used in the description below are taken or paraphrased from the original photograph captions. The photographers represented include Mike Andersen, Kevin Cole, Ted Dully, Stanley Forman, Frank Hill, Ray Lussier, Roland Oxton, Leo Renahan, and M. Leo Tierney.