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As Siu Tip Lam boarded her school bus, a rock flew from the growing crowd surrounding Lam and her fellow elementary school students. The year was 1975 and these hostile scenes were playing out across the city in response to Boston Public Schools’ (BPS) desegregation efforts.
The Racial Imbalance Act was passed by the Massachusetts state legislature in 1965, making segregation in schools illegal. In 1974, after a decade of fraught desegregation efforts and accompanying opposition, a new busing policy was enforced. The policy required students to be bused to disparate neighborhoods in an effort to combine racially divided communities. This policy primarily affected the working class and populations of color, and its implementation sparked protests, violence, and harassment of the students involved…