The Busing Battleground

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, experienced this 2023 PBS documentary:

On September 12, 1974, police were stationed outside Boston schools as Black and white students were bused for the first time to comply with a federal court desegregation order. Shocking violence, directed mostly at children, ensued. The Busing Battleground illuminates the volatile effort to end school segregation, and the decades-long struggle for educational equity that preceded the crisis. Distributed by PBS Distribution. 117 min. (NR).

This documentary is provided by Access Video On Demand, a digital library service available to all residents of Ocean County with an Ocean County Library Card.