Desegregation, Busing in Boston, and Bad History

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Like most Americans, I was raised to believe that racial segregation was bad, and that efforts to integrate schools were worthy moral crusades. The canonical story of the battles for integration is the PBS documentary series Eyes on the Prize , which I watched in public school history class. Episode 13, The Keys to the Kingdom , covers school desegregation in Boston. I have long studied education…

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