Author: Charlie Breitrose
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Former Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn Looks Back on Busing, Forty Years Later
BOSTON, Mass.—Images of protests and violence in response to the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools are so lasting that movies like “The Departed” and the upcoming “Black Mass” still use them as symbols of racial disharmony 40 years later. Depending who you ask, the furor over busing was a fight over preserving decades of…