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Model Cities Busing

Description: "Leader: " P1 Model Cities Busing #9853 9/4/74"; Silent b-roll of a meeting with mostly non-white attendees about busing. Some women speak about the need for parents from the different communities to band together and communicate. One woman argues that the kids that go to the schools in Southie have more opportunities than those that graduate from Roxbury. A police officer states that this is the law and kids will be bussed. "
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/04/1974

Busing Tale of Two Cities Tease

Description: "Leader: "P1 Busing Tale of Two Cities Tease 9/6/74"; Two men playing drums on a hill overlooking San Francisco. Footage of San Francisco including people on a crowded street, residential neighborhoods, a street car, the Golden Gate Bridge, and aerial shots of the skyline and streets. Sound bites from parents and administrators in California followed by interviews with parents and students in Boston and people speaking an an anti-busing event. Mayor Kevin White speaking with parents. More footage of parents discussing Freedom schools in the Chinese neighborhoods in San Francisco. Footage of schools in Boston and more interviews with kids. Interviews with California parents and kids about violence during the beginning of busing. Reel 2 of 2. See Acc. 2394.00637"
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 09/06/1974

Newbury Street; busing court sketches

Description: NEWBURY STREET APARTMENTS NEEDING REPAIR, REALTY OFFICES. Courtroom art of Laval Wilson, school department and desegregation plaintiff's attorneys, Judge Arthur Garrity.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/21/1985

Anti-Busing Rally - Cambridge Kennedy Library

Description: Leader: P1 + P2 Anti-Busing Rally #7443 2/27/74 -- P1 + P2 Cambridge Kennedy Library #7440 SOF/MAG Hds 2/27/74; Silent footage of crowd gathering in the auditorium of the Patrick Gavin Junior High School for a meeting of anti-busing groups. Excerpt from a speech by Boston School Committee Chairman John J. Kerrigan. Another speech with a woman (spokesperson for the South Boston Home and School Association, Patricia Ranese) calling for a boycott of the Boston school system. Silent footage of East Boston pier. A man speaks at a meeting about the proposed Kennedy Library in Cambridge. A woman speaks about the results of an inner belt project. Silent b-roll of the meeting. Silent b-roll of the audience for the anti-busing rally. Louise Day Hicks, John J. Kerrigan, Tip O'Neil and Boston School Committee members seen in the crowd. CU on a Stop Forced Busing pin. Excerpts from speakers at the meeting. Silent b-roll of meeting in Cambridge about the Kennedy library and footage of containers at the East Boston Pier (one section upside down). Excerpts from speakers at the meeting about the consulting firm chosen to prepare an environmental impact study (C.E. Maguire Inc) for the location of the proposed Kennedy Library in Cambridge. Silent b-roll of a train station and parking.
Leader: P1 + P2 Anti-Busing Rally #7443 2/27/74 -- P1 + P2 Cambridge Kennedy Library #7440 SOF/MAG Hds 2/27/74; Silent footage of crowd gathering in the auditorium of the Patrick Gavin Junior High School for a meeting of anti-busing groups. Excerpt from a speech by Boston School Committee Chairman John J. Kerrigan. Another speech with a woman (spokesperson for the South Boston Home and School Association, Patricia Ranese) calling for a boycott of the Boston school system. Silent footage of East Boston pier. A man speaks at a meeting about the proposed Kennedy Library in Cambridge. A woman speaks about the results of an inner belt project. Silent b-roll of the meeting. Silent b-roll of the audience for the anti-busing rally. Louise Day Hicks, John J. Kerrigan, Tip O'Neil and Boston School Committee members seen in the crowd. CU on a Stop Forced Busing pin. Excerpts from speakers at the meeting. Silent b-roll of meeting in Cambridge about the Kennedy library and footage of containers at the East Boston Pier (one section upside down). Excerpts from speakers at the meeting about the consulting firm chosen to prepare an environmental impact study (C.E. Maguire Inc) for the location of the proposed Kennedy Library in Cambridge. Silent b-roll of a train station and parking.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/27/1974

School Committee

Description: "; School Committee member discusses the Garrity decision on racial imbalance and school busing and the possibility of appealing the decision, followed by b-roll footage of the committee meeting."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 06/24/1974

JACKSON MANN SCHOOL

Description: CHILDREN WALKING TOWARD SCHOOL BUSES AT JACKSON MANN SCHOOL
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/01/1985

Charlestown High School

Description: Bunker Hill Monument, exteriors of Charlestown High School, and Charlestown environs. A few police officers are stationed along Monument Square outside of Charlestown High School. Robert Murphy (Headmaster, Charlestown High School) stands in front of the school. School buses, accompanied by a police motorcycle escort, pull up in front of the school. African American students exit the buses and enter the school. Police officer tells camera operator that there is a standing order that the press has to remain across the street. A small number of photographers record the arrival of the buses from across the street. White students walks towards school and enter. Gary Griffith does several takes of reporter standup saying that the arrival of school buses at Charlestown High School was routine.
0:00:18: Visual: Shots of the Bunker Hill Monument; of the exterior of Charlestown High School. Two police officers stand outside of Charlestown High School. A white woman walks into the school. A muffled voice yells out, "No busing." Robert Murphy (Headmaster, Charlestown High School) stands out in front of the high school. Shot of Concord Street. Police motorcycles approach the school. Five police officers on motorcycles receive instructions from a police official. The motorcycles pull away. 0:03:41: V: School buses circle Monument Square and approach the high school. Police motorcycles escort the buses. A police officer stands near a Boston Police Department station wagon parked across the street from the high school. The officer watches the buses pull up in front of the school. African American students exit the buses and enter the school. Shot of the Hudson Bus Lines logo on one of the buses. The school buses pull away from the high school, accompanied by the police motorcycles. Murphy, a police officer, and a few school officials remain in front of the school. 0:07:06: V: White students walk toward the entrance of the school. Murphy and another school official greet a few of the students. A police officer is heard telling members of the media to move across the street. Two police officers stand casually on the corner of Bartlett Street and Monument Square. White students walk toward the school. Fewer than ten members of the media record the scene from the sidewalk across the street. A Hudson Bus Lines airport van pulls up in front of the school. An African American student is inside of the van. The van pulls away. The sidewalk in front of the school is empty. Some members of the media depart as two police officers walk up the opposite side of the street. Murphy speaks to two police officers on the corner of Bartlett Street and Monument Square. A man in a business suit speaks to a two-person camera crew. The street is quiet. Murphy and a police officer walk toward the school. 0:12:11: V: Gary Griffith stands outside of Charlestown High School. Griffith reports on the routine arrival of five buses at the high school this morning. He reports that there is no sign of unrest. The crew does two more takes of Griffith reporting on the story.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1977

Newton North High School

Description: School buses and wagons lined up outside Newton North High School. New brick exterior of school.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/01/1979

Charlotte Schools

Description: Leader: Charlotte Schools #10306 10/24/74; Interview with high school students in Charlotte about a plan for students from Boston to visit and see how Charlotte's school integration through busing plan has worked.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 10/24/1974

South Boston High School

Description: South Boston environs. Graffiti written in large white letters on G Street reads, "Go home, Jerome. You failed." (Graffiti refers to South Boston High School Headmaster Jerome Wynegar.) African American and white members of a girls' softball team stand on the steps outside of South Boston High School. A few school officials, police officers and others, including Eric Van Loon (attorney for the plaintiffs, Morgan v. Hennigan), are gathered on the steps of the school. Police are stationed along G Street as school buses pull up in front of the school. African American students exit the school and board the buses. The softball team boards a bus parked in front of the steps to the school. The buses depart.
0:00:31: Visual: Shots of East 6th Street in South Boston. Boston harbor is visible in the distance. Boston Police Department trucks are parked on G Street in front of South Boston High School. Graffiti in large white letters on the pavement of G Street reads, "Go home Jerome. You failed." (Graffiti refers to South Boston High School Headmaster Jerome Wynegar.) Police are gathered in groups along G Street. 0:02:28: V: A police cruiser with flashing lights leads two yellow school buses up East 6th Street. The buses head toward the high school, directed by a police officer. African American and white members of a girls softball team are gathered on the steps of the high school. Police officers, other students and school officials are also on the steps. Eric Van Loon (attorney for the plaintiffs, Morgan v. Hennigan) stands on the steps, talking to an African American woman and two African American men. 0:04:01: V: A bus is parked in front of the steps of the high school. The softball players board the bus. A group of African American students exit the school and walk toward the school buses parked in front of the school. Two police officers seated on their motorcycles observe the scene. African American students continue to board the buses. A few white students are gathered on the steps of the high school. Police officers direct the school buses in front of the school to depart. The buses travel down G Street, followed by a police motorcycle. Members of the media record the departure of the buses. The bus carrying the softball team departs. The girls wave goodbye. 0:07:01: V: Two police officers confer in the school yard of the high school. Massachusetts State Police officers board a Massachusetts State Police bus in the school yard.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/12/1977