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...first glance, Louis Nephew and his family might appear to be distant Boston relatives of All in the Family's Archie Bunker. A large American flag waves proudly above the small grass and macadam front yard, and during the just completed mayoral campaign, the flagpole was also decorated with a poster boosting Louise Day Hicks, the antibusing candidate. More important, the Nephews recently refused to send their children to a school outside their Dorchester neighborhood, assigned to them under Boston's busing plan. But inside 12 Edson Street the view is somewhat different, and the Nephews seem less...
...main reasons they chose the Edson Street house was its location. They and their seven children would be near a Catholic church and the Fifield elementary school, which is only two blocks away. When the Nephews bought their home seven years ago, Dorchester was an all-white neighborhood; now black families are moving in and the Nephews worry about their investment and their children. Last September, when they were told that to further integration two of their daughters, Patrice and Susan, would have to go to fifth grade at the new Lee school, half a mile away-the other five...
When the school transfer was ordered, Nephew, an IBM programmer, and some friends asked the pastor of St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church for help. Father Leonard Burke organized the parents of about 200 children, most of whom continued to attend Fifield in defiance of the edict; school officials allowed them in the classrooms, though the children were not registered for credit. Picket lines were set up around the homes of school committeemen who had voted for the busing plan...
...parents' activities, coupled with an approaching school-committee election, produced results-and a blow to desegregation in Boston. In early October the school committee reversed busing plans throughout the city in the presence of an angry crowd of parents. The Nephews found personal vindication in the reversal. "We're called second-class citizens," Jeannette Nephew observes. "But we proved we're second to nobody in city hall...
...breakdown was the beginning of her retirement from the world. Her increasing reclusiveness brought increasing productivity, and in the early 1860's her talents crested. In 1862 she wrote three hundred sixty-six poems. The deaths of her nephew Gilbert at nine years old, her father, and then her mother dragged Emily into profound depressions, but never the psychotic depths she experienced between 1857 and 1864. It is known that she had a lover in 1883 when she was fifty-three; it seems that he made sexual overtures to her, and she, being unable to respond, lost all possibility...