Welcome, researchers from the Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers and the Jeremiah E. Burke High School!
This guide introduces resources to support your research on activism for racial equity in and desegregation of Boston public schools. Use the tabs on the left to explore primary sources related to the lives and work of 5 activists; Ruth Batson, Paul Parks, Jean McGuire, Ellen S. Jackson, and Carmen Pola.
Primary sources are first-hand sources created at the time of a particular event or period under study. They may be artifacts or observations or accounts of events or experiments. They include books, journal or newspaper articles, audio-visual materials, official documents, pamphlets, statistical data, and archival materials.
Evaluate books and other sources to determine the author's point of view. Do you agree with the author? Does their perspective agree with or contradict other accounts you have read?
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A People's History of the New Boston
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Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegreation
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Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s
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The Other Boston Busing Story: What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line
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