School integration -- Massachusetts
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Charles L. Glenn papers
Collection
Identifier: M227
Overview
Charles Glenn (1938-) is an educator, writer, and former Massachusetts state official focusing on pedagogy, educational policy, and diversity in education. These papers document the administrative efforts behind racial integration, school choice, and equity in education in Massachusetts from 1963 through the 1990s. The collection demonstrates efforts to desegregate schools and provide equal opportunity in education, and the evolution of equitable educational policy over the late 20th century...
Dates:
1963-2000
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
Phyllis M. Ryan papers
Collection
Identifier: M094
Overview
Phyllis Milgroom Ryan (1927-1998) began her career as a political activist while a student at Northeastern University. Following her graduation from Northeastern University in 1950, she worked as a psychiatric social worker in the Massachusetts state mental health system. In 1951, she married William J. Ryan, Jr. with whom she shared a passion for social justice and collaborated in political action for the next several decades. By the early 1960s Phyllis M. Ryan served as a media advisor and...
Dates:
1959-1988; Majority of material found within 1961-1988