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Description: Mike Levitt interviews a couple of parents on whether they would send their kids to school if they were assigned to be bussed. Mother says she would send them to help integrate the schools. Reporter standup on children attended schools they weren't assigned to because their parents refuse to bus the.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 09/13/1971

Schools superintendent McDonough

Description: Interview with interim superintendent Joseph McDonough who is optimistic about the Boston school system.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/29/1990

Sen. Kennedy campaigns for Silber

Description: In Chelsea Sen. Edward Kennedy campaigns for John Silber. Silber cozies up to children in bilingual class. Marjorie Clapprood smiles,claps for singing children. Silber, Clapprood, Kennedy, Diana Lam each at podium
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/05/1990

Silber booed in Chelsea

Description: John Silber is booed at Chelsea public hearing where he defends BU's management of school system; advises no cuts in education budget and home rule petition raising property taxes for local services.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/14/1991

Silber: no run for governor

Description: BU president John Silber announces he will not run for statewide office in 1990; instead will devote himself to rebuilding Chelsea public schools.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/24/1989

South Boston High

Description: Exterior South Boston High, first day of school on staggered opening schedule. Police on steps. Tilt up facade. White students walk up to school. Jerome Wynegar out front. Boston Police bus pulls up. Wynegar comments on insufficient buses to bring black students from distant neighborhoods because of contract dispute and the disruption of the staggered opening schedule. Press photographers. Person on the street interview with white mother, Evelyn Gorhan, who waited with daughter for bus that never came. Black mother, Edna Calhoun from Roxbury says she will not send her son to school until buses are available. Calhoun and another black woman, Frankie MacDonald, report rocks and expletives hurled at them. Shots of the children. “Nigers suck” graffiti on brick housing project.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/07/1977

South Boston High School

Description: South Boston High. Walking shot down corridor and dark stairs. In library, a group of black and white students discuss their experience in school since desegregation started four years ago. They attest to better educational programs and improved racial harmony now. “No fights.” They think police presence in the early years worsened tension.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/08/1978

South Boston High School

Description: Exteriors of South Boston High School. South Boston environs. Large graffiti in crosswalk “Winegar [sic] we don't want you.” Black students stream off bus, walk toward front entrance. Jerome Wynegar stands by. Plainclothes US marshals with armbands and walkie-talkies. Police keep press photographers behind line.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1976

South Boston High School

Description: Empty classroom at South Boston High School. Mr. Healey's science class, mostly black students, sparsely attended. Geology principles written on blackboard and other science posters on classroom walls. Boy writes in spiral notebook. Students in the hallway. Boys in mechanical shop class. Black and white boys play basketball in gym. Black teacher works with black student on vocabulary lesson. Students do class work at desks.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/08/1978

South Boston High School

Description: South Boston High exterior. Parking space designated for press. Graffiti on street: “print the truth.” Two Boston police officers in front of school. Five school buses approach with lights blinking. Mostly black students stream off buses, go up steps to school entrance. Jerome Wynegar walks up. More buses arrive with black students. Long line of buses depart, descend hill. Students enter main hallway, walk through metal detector. Close-up on needle meter. Students in art class draw on large sheets of paper; teacher gives individual attention. Shots of empty classroom, with PA announcements being made in the background. Walking shot down dark hallway with lockers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/08/1978