Conversations on busing
You think of it as ancient history until you hear the pain and the hurt 35 years later, the buried legacy of busing.
“We lost the most important part of our education,’’ said Regina Williams, who said she dropped out of school at the height of busing, demoralized over the anger and hate she was facing. “We lost the experience of the prom and the whole high school experience. Even if you take classes [later], you never get that back.’’
A generation after the city was nearly torn apart by the effort to desegregate Boston’s schools, an activist group - the Union of Minority Neighborhoods - is trying to spark a new discussion about what it all meant. The centerpiece of its effort is a 53-minute film, “Can We Talk?’’ In it, people who lived through the era - students, parents, a school bus driver, a beat cop - reflect on their experiences
