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School buses carrying Black students are given a police motorcycle escort as they head for South Boston High School on the second day of court-ordered busing in Boston, Sept. 13, 1974. Widespread student boycotts and sporadic disturbances marked the first day of school in the predominantly white South Boston section which, under the court’s integration plan, had been combined into one school district with the largely Black Roxbury section. (RNS archive photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)
Kit Doyle

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