School Committee Secretary's desegregation files--Boston Public Schools, 1963-1984, (bulk 1974-1976).

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School Committee Secretary's desegregation files--Boston Public Schools, 1963-1984, (bulk 1974-1976).

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Correspondence, minutes, transcripts, student assignment plans, court orders, and news clippings, collected by Winter, secretary of the SC. Letters from both Robert J. DiGrazia, the Boston Police Commissioner and John W. Sears, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission (both 1975) state that the officers will remain posted in the Boston Public Schools until the climate has settled and students are safe. Letters to and from Ruth Batson of the NAACP document the initial dialogue between the NAACP and the School Committee, as the group attenpted to resolve the issue of racial imbalance in the schools. Also of interest is a special report (1975 July) by the Boston Municipal Research Bureau on the costs of desegregation in the Boston Public Schools. Subjects include bilingual education, busing, desegregation, education, integration, racial imbalance, race relations, segregation, special education, Title VI, 1964 Civil Rights Act, and Massachusetts General Laws, chapters 636 and 766.

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