The Other Boston Busing Story: What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line

by Susan E. Eaton

METCO, America's longest-running voluntary school desegregation program, buses black children from Boston's city neighborhoods to predominantly white suburban schools. In contrast to the infamous violence and rage that greeted forced school busing within the city in the 1970s, the work of METCO has quietly and calmly promoted school integration. But how has this program affected the lives of its graduates? Would they choose to participate if they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684580293
• ISBN13: 9781684580293
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"