Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Timilty, however, demonstrated the depth of his support by winning in areas of the city with deep anti-busing sentiments, South Boston and Charlestown, in addition to carrying his home neighborhood, Hyde Park, and nearby Dorchester. Timilty was also helped by the rain, which probably held down turnout among elderly and black voters, two groups which have consistently supported White in the past...
Where are they? A few have registered at Boston's four Southern-style white academies. None of them have opened yet, but parents predict they will be full when they do. The South Boston Heights Academy expects more than 400 students and is even conducting preadmission testing. Hyde Park Academy cut off its enrollment at 350 students and has 100 more on the waiting list. Other whites have fled to parochial schools, despite the archdiocese's official hard line refusing admission to white pupils trying to avoid desegregation...
...just eye each other." Added a white schoolmate, Susan Downs, 15: "It's scary. With the black kids coming in, it's getting more and more tense. You can't trust anybody because you never know what they'll do." Kenny Williams, a black student at Boston's Hyde Park High School, found that "everything is cool right now. Of course all the white kids here are being nice to us, but you know they're sneaky and probably at some point they will try something." Added Malinda Brown, 15, a black junior who is bused to Charlestown High School...
...dazed and wounded poured out onto the street facing Hyde Park. "I saw a woman with both legs blown off below the knee," said a waiter as he sat dumbfounded on the curb. "There was blood and black smoke everywhere." The explosion was heard all over Mayfair, the heart of fashionable London, and ambulances sped to the hotel. "One minute everyone was walking about normally," said Sally Mordant, a passerby. "The next it was complete chaos...
Leaders of the boycott movement have threatened to expand it this year and to enlarge some storefront "academies"−similar to those that whites established in the South to avoid desegregation−in South Boston, East Boston and Hyde Park. The academies, designed to accommodate 800 students, will charge $575 tuition. Other white parents are trying to enroll their children in parochial and private schools, most of which are already full, or in suburbs and other school districts where they have relatives...