We were sent to desegregate a high school in Boston | Video Essay

Leola Hampton was a 14-year-old high school student when Boston’s desegregation busing program began. The program started after Judge W. Arthur Garrity ruled that the Boston School Committee, which serves as the school board for Boston Public Schools, was guilty of intentionally segregating the city’s schools. Phase one of the plan began with Black and White high school kids getting bused to each other’s neighborhood for school.

Watch as she recalls her experiences traveling through anti-desegregation protests to get to her predominantly White high school.