Lesson Plan on School Integration in Boston And Nantucket

Despite how it sounds, Boston's busing crisis wasn't a transportation problem. Academics address the problems faced by African Americans following school desegregation and the struggle to receive equal educational opportunities. Scholars...

Read about the law suit against Boston Public Schools claiming that the schools were segregated in fact, although not by law. See the results of busing and read the addendum about the status of integration in Boston at this time. The...

The anti-busing movement in Boston is the focus of a lesson that asks young historians to examine primary source documents to identify the causes and consequences of busing pupils from one area of the city to another in the attempt to...

A history of the attempt to integrate schools in Little Rock, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Boston.

This excerpt from WGBH's Evening Compass news program summarizes events of the first year of the 1974 Boston school desegregation plan. [3:33]

When state and local authorities fail to uphold the Federal Court orders for integration at Central High School, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to enforce those orders. Using an array of photos and primary source...

In this 1962 speech, Mississippi governor Ross Barnett defies the Supreme Court's order to admit James Meredith to the University of Mississippi claiming the federal government was interfering in a state matter.

As part of a much larger site from PBS' American Experience's series, Eyes on the Prize, look through this multifaceted site that traces the resistance to implementing school desegregation ordered by the Supreme Court and shows the...

Read about resistance to desegregation and the nine African American students who dared to integrate Little Rock's Central High School.

Imagine showing up to your first day of school and being greeted by an angry mob and the National Guard. Learn what happened to the "Little Rock Nine".