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  • Tags: Busing for school integration
Boston busing debate from an episode of “A Left and a Right” [audio recording and transcript]

The Boston Busing Debate was an episode of the television show “ A Left and a Right” which originally aired on Boston’s Channel 5 and was co-hosted…

Form letter describing John Joseph Moakley's efforts in congress to stop busing and urging South Boston residents to vote for Moakley
Memorandum describing John Joseph Moakley's legislative voting record on busing, 1 November 1974

Memo includes list of busing votes in the 93rd Congress.

Freedom House Institute on Schools and Education booklet, "Boston Desegregation: Questions and Answers" circa 1974
Freedom House Institute on Schools and Education booklet, "Boston Desegregation: The First Term 1974-75 School Year", 22 February 1975
Freedom House Institute on Schools and Education booklet, "Boston School Committee: 'Student Desegregation Plan': A Response," 3 February 1975
Letter from Louise Day Hicks to John Joseph Moakley requesting the establishment of a commission to "investigate and report on the circumstances surrounding the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment," 12 December 1975
Letter from Louise Day Hicks to John Joseph Moakley regarding an anti-busing Wall Street Journal article by Michael Novak, 4 August 1975
Letter from Louise Day Hicks to John Joseph Moakley regarding busing and South Boston High receivership; includes news clipping from the Quincy Patriot Ledger "Southie Order Called Illegal", 19 December 1975
Correspondence between John Joseph Moakley and Louise Day Hicks of the Boston City Council regarding busing, December 1975-January 1976

Letter from Moakley includes attached response from Bob Kastenmeier, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties and the Administration of…

“The Tom Larson Show” featuring Louise Day Hicks WSBK-TV 38, 5/22/1973 [audio recording and transcript]

Television host Tom Larson interviews Louise Day Hicks for an episode of “The Tom Larson Show.” The topics discussed include busing, her 1972…

Correspondence between John Joseph Moakley and the Massachusetts Black Legislative Caucus regarding busing including a list of demands, April-May 1976

The letter from the Massachusetts Black Legislative Caucus discusses the attack on Theodore Landsmark and other violent incidents in Boston, and is…

"Make Congress Stop Bussing" booklet by Congressman Lawrence P. MacDonald, April 1976
Correspondence between John Joseph Moakley and South Boston constituent regarding busing, and bumper sticker, 1 December 1975

Includes attached "Fight forced busing" bumper sticker. Please note that archives has redacted personal information such as names and street…

Correspondence between John Joseph Moakley and Boston City Councilor Louise Day Hicks regarding a proposed constitutional amendment to prohibit forced busing, 2 December 1975
Letter from John Joseph Moakley in reply to a completed questionnaire from a Jamaica Plain constituent, 1975

The questionnaire includes questions about utility rates, gasoline consumption, the Russian Wheat Deal, and food and oil prices. The constituent's…

Correspondence between John Joseph Moakley and a West Roxbury constituent regarding busing, 30 October 1975

Please note that archives has redacted personal information such as names and street addresses from this document.

Testimony of Congressman John Joseph Moakley before the United States Senate Committee on Judiciary in support of a constitutional amendment to prohibit forced busing, 29 October 1975
Letter from John Joseph Moakley to Restore Our Alienated Rights (ROAR) and Senator John Tower, 14 October 1975
John Joseph Moakley's testimony on busing for one of the "Jaffe Hearings," 23 March 1973

In early 1973, a series of hearings on the issue of busing were held, led by Harvard Law School professor Louis Jaffe.

Correspondence between John Joseph Moakley and a West Roxbury constituent regarding busing, October 1975

Please note that archives has redacted personal information such as names and street addresses from this document.

Correspondence between John Joseph Moakley and a Needham constituent regarding busing, 1 November 1975

Please note that archives has redacted personal information such as names and street addresses from this document.

Correspondence between John Joseph Moakley and a South Boston High School teacher regarding South Boston High receivership, 15 December 1975

Please note that archives has redacted personal information such as names and street addresses from this document.

Letter from John Joseph Moakley to William M. Bulger, Massachusetts State Senate, regarding request for inquiry into racially-motivated violence in Boston, 3 September 1975
Correspondence between John Joseph Moakley and a South Boston constituent regarding busing, November 1975

Please note that archives has redacted personal information such as names and street addresses from this document.

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