Manuscripts/1. African American
Record Group Term
Identifier: Manuscripts/1
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
James W. Fraser (collector) photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: M066
Overview
In June 1974, Judge W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. found the Boston School Committee guilty of willful segregation and called for forced busing of students from Roxbury and other predominantly African-American neighborhoods, to predominantly white schools, including Hyde Park, South Boston, and Charlestown High Schools. Before the ruling, students were assigned to schools based on where they lived. As a result, schools were segregated based on the population of the students in the area. While in...
Dates:
1905-ca. 1990; Majority of material found within 1974-1976
Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, Inc. records
Collection
Identifier: M101
Overview
Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, Incorporated (METCO, Inc.) is a private nonprofit organization founded in 1966 to eliminate racial imbalance by busing children from Boston and Springfield to suburban public schools in 38 suburban communities. The program was created more than three decades ago by educational collaborators, parents, and suburban citizens from metropolitan Boston and Boston's suburbs as a voluntary desegregation program. Its mission is "to provide, through...
Dates:
1961-2005; Majority of material found within 1966-1995
Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, Inc. records
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Z12-014
Dates:
1969-2011