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Banner on South Boston Home

Date: 1975
Description: Hand-drawn banner hanging from the bay window of a home. The banner features a cartoon, rear view, of a boy holding an American flag, with his arm around a...
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Waiting to Be Bused to South Boston High School

Date: 1975
Description: Students from Columbia Point waiting outdoors to be bused to South Boston High School. Most of the students are walking, and a few are clowning for the cam...
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Woman Shaking Her Fist at School Bus

Date: 1975
Description: A woman in a crowd shaking her fist at a school bus. The bus is carrying minority students to another high school as part of a school integration program. ...
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South Boston

Date: 1975
Description: A woman and a teenage girl are looking out the windows of a building during unrest following court-ordered school desegregation busing.
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Raising a Fist

Date: 1975
Description: A school boy is raising a fist for the photographer while sitting with a group of his friends. Handwritten caption on the reverse: "These boys asked us to ...
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Ku Klux Klan Sign

Date: 1975
Description: A man, sitting on porch steps, is holding up a sign that reads: "K.K.K. + S.B + H.P." (Ku Klux Klan plus South Boston plus Hyde Park.) Standing on the porc...
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Injured on the School Bus

Date: 1975
Description: Caption on the reverse reads: "Linda Crump — girl on left, a student who was hit by a rock in her bus on the way out of S. Boston." Two girls and a young...
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Waiting to Be Bused to South Boston High School

Date: 1975
Description: Students from Columbia Point waiting to be bused to South Boston High School. Most of the students are standing in groups, talking. School buses are parked...
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Students at South Boston High School

Date: 1975
Description: Students and three adults on standing on the steps at an entrance to South Boston High School.
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Racist Graffiti

Date: 1975
Description: Two students are standing behind a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. Below their feet is a concrete retaining wall with racist graffiti spray ...
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Racist Graffiti

Date: 1975
Description: Two students stand next to a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. Below their feet is a concrete retaining wall with racist graffiti spray painte...
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Racist Graffiti

Date: 1975
Description: View across street towards a man leaning against a street sign near the corner of a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. On the right is a concre...
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Racist Graffiti

Date: 1975
Description: Racist graffiti spray painted on the wall of a South Boston housing project. It reads: "We HATE Niggers." This image was captured during the unrest followi...
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School Boycott Leader

Date: 1975
Description: Donna Connolly, wearing sunglasses, is standing on the sidewalk in South Boston with some of her children. She was one of the leaders of the school boycott...
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Students and Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: A group of students in South Boston are boycotting school to protest court-ordered desegregation busing. One boy is grabbing the head of an effigy of an Af...
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First Day of Busing

Date: 09 12 1974
Description: View down street towards school buses transporting minority students to South Boston High School. They were escorted by police. Protestors are lined up alo...
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School Boycott Leader

Date: 1975
Description: Donna Connolly, wearing sunglasses, is standing on the sidewalk in South Boston with some of her children. She was one of the leaders of the school boycott...
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Girls Playing in the Street

Date: 1974
Description: Two girls are rolling about in the street on small, foot-powered, six-wheeled ATV toys, and a man is standing on the corner next to a building with a billb...
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South Boston Children

Date: 1975
Description: Students from South Boston are posing and clowning on a curb near a street corner. Older students are standing or sitting on chain-link fence. In the backg...
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Students and Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: A group of students are boycotting school to protest court-ordered desegregation busing. Two boys are holding an effigy of an African-American man. In the ...

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