The Busing Battleground | Chapter 1 | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS

[@pattiderosamusic3292]

PBS - PLEASE make the FULL documentary available to an international audience. A Boston friend sent me the link for the full doc but it is blocked here in Italy. I’m a former Bostonian who was involved in the struggle for racial justice and very much want to see this film. Thank you.

[@AmericanExperiencePBS]

Hi Patti, thank you for your interest in this film! Unfortunately, our distribution rights are limited outside the U.S. and online video is subject to geo-filtering, which restricts the areas that can view PBS content. A selection of AMERICAN EXPERIENCE programs are available in Europe from PBS America, available on Freeview 84, Freesat 155, Virgin Media 187, Sky 174, Samsung TV Plus and on-demand with Freeview Play, Amazon UK and Amazon Fire TV app. You are welcome to reach out to PBS America to inquire about the availability of specific titles: www.pbsamerica.co.uk/contact/

[@BlueBaron3339]

Oh, how I remember Louise Day Hicks...and nobody went into Southie except...well... This was a manufactured zero-sum game that only served to rend a grinding class issue into an often violent ethnic struggle bordering on an outright war. The worst case of flawed public policy imaginable.

[@maryscott5640]

I gre up in Boston ( West Roxbury) and am ashamed to say that my family campaigned for Louise Day Hicks. I was a high school sophomore in 1974. My siblings and I went to parochial school because our parents didn’t want us to get bused. We were so segregated we never saw any black people in W Roxbury, only when we went into downtown Boston on the T.

[@samanthab1923]

Why was this done? Sounds like neither side wanted it. Chris Rocks stories are horrendous of being bussed.

[@matternst1442]

Baltimore schools spend more per student than any other district in the country. They have 7% proficiency in math…..

[@BlueBaron3339]

Source?

[@matternst1442]

@@BlueBaron3339well YT deletes links but I googled “Baltimore schools math proficiency” The 7% was WBAL As with spending I was WRONG. They are fourth at $21000 a year…..

[@BlueBaron3339]

Didn't think so. Didn't specify Baltimore City or Baltimore County either and there are many school districts in both. Didn't specify which one of those either. You just made it up. Just made it up to please fellow travelers.

[@tarikabaraka2251]

El camino de varias décadas para eliminar la segregación escolar. El 12 de septiembre de 1974, la policía se situó fuera de las escuelas de Boston mientras los estudiantes negros y blancos eran transportados en autobús por primera vez, de un barrio a otro, cumpliendo con la orden de un tribunal federal de eliminar la segregación. El transporte escolar entre los barrios fue recibido con una violencia estremecedora: enojados manifestantes blancos les arrojaron piedras a los autobuses que transportaban estudiantes negros y les lanzaron epítetos raciales a los alumnos al entrar a sus nuevas escuelas. El caos y los disturbios raciales aumentarían y continuarían durante años. Utilizando relatos de testigos, entrevistas grabadas e imágenes de las noticias no vistas hacía décadas, The Busing Battleground revela en detalle el esfuerzo volátil por terminar con la segregación escolar y la larga lucha por conseguir equidad educativa que precedió a esta crisis. También ilustra cómo se libraron, tanto en el Norte como en el Sur, las batallas por los derechos civiles y examina esta saga desde la dimensión de clase; explorando cómo los barrios a los que más afectó la orden judicial fueron los más pobres de la ciudad.