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'We were fighting for our life': Former Boston Public Schools student, teacher reflect on busing, 50 years later
On June 21, 1974, federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity ordered Boston Public Schools to desegregate. Thousands of students were bused to schools in different neighborhoods in an effort to more evenly distribute racial diversity across the district. White …