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Known for his conservative views, O'Neil actively opposed mandatory school integration in Boston when it was introduced in 1974. He was a member of the anti-busing organization Powder Keg and led marches and rallies opposing integration. He attempted to make busing a campaign issue in the Eighth Congressional...
Less than a year ago, Linda Chavez, 38, was the relatively unknown staff director of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, a bipartisan federal advisory panel. But Chavez, a Hispanic American and onetime union lobbyist, transformed the minor post into a bully pulpit to express her strongly conservative views against racial...
More than three-fourths of the 105 black leaders polled favored affirmative- action preferences in hiring and college admissions; by the same percentage, the survey's 600 black citizens rejected the notion that race should be the main criterion. Leaders heavily favored abortion, busing to achieve school integration and a...
Manifestly, Lukas means these stories to be paradigms. Are they the only possible paradigms, the inevitable, universal results of busing? The author's careful choice of characters seems to imply that they are. The book ends in the late '70s, and thus omits both the continuing signs of racism and...
Common Ground explores the sad, violent history of busing in Boston. The broken promises of Armistice Day, 1918, are recalled.